Bute Pursuivant

Bute Pursuivant of Arms was a Scottish pursuivant of arms of the Court of the Lord Lyon.

Bute Pursuivant
The heraldic badge of Bute Pursuivant of Arms
 
Heraldic traditionGallo-British
JurisdictionScotland
Governing bodyCourt of the Lord Lyon

The title of the office derives from the Isle of Bute, which was the personal property of the Scottish monarchs.[1]

The badge of office is A lymphad Sable, flagged Gules in full sail Or charged of a fess chequy Azure and Argent, the yard surmounted of a coronet of four fleur-de-lys (two visible) and four crosses pattee (one and two halves visible) Or.[2]

The office is currently vacant. The most recent Bute Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary was W David H Sellar (latterly Lord Lyon King of Arms).

Holders of the office
Arms Name Date of appointment Ref[3]
Robert Hart 1528
Peter Thomson 1535
Adam MacCulloch 1554
John Calder 1561
John Binsele 1590
William MacKiesoun 1598
Eleazor Mackesone 1616
John Thomson 1636
William Malcolm 1647
James Alisone 1661
John Hoge 1675
John Wright 1704
Sir Charles Erskine of Cambo, Baronet 1707
George Glass 1715
Alexander Thomson 1724
John Douglas 1765
George Douglas of Torquhine 1768
Archibald Campbell 1776
Alexander Law 1796
Daniel Menzies 1821
Ebenezer Macgeorge 1822
David Littlejohn 1833
William Goodall Bayley 1838
Walter Ferguson 1851
Robert Spence Livingstone 1884
Andrew Munro Ross 1885
John Thomas Loth 1888
James Keir Lamont 1899
Vacant 1901–2001
William David Hamilton Sellar 2001–2008 [4]
Vacant 2008–Present

See also

References
  1. "Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Dictionary of Period Forms". Julia Smith. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  2. Roads, Elizabeth Ann. "Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms". The Double Tressure (20 1998): 77–86.
  3. Grant, Sir Francis James (1945). Court of the Lord Lyon: List of His Majesty's Officers of Arms and Other Officials with Genealogical Notes, 1318-1945. Society.
  4. "No. 25116". The Edinburgh Gazette. 9 November 2001. p. 2663.
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