Snawdoun Herald

Snawdoun Herald of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish herald of arms in Ordinary of the Court of the Lord Lyon.[1]

Snawdoun Herald
The heraldic badge of Snawdoun Herald of Arms
 
Heraldic traditionGallo-British
JurisdictionScotland
Governing bodyCourt of the Lord Lyon

The office was first mentioned in 1443 and the title is derived from a part of Stirling Castle which bore the same name. The last Snawdoun Herald of Arms to have served was in 1867.

The badge of office is Issuant from battlements Proper a unicorn’s head erased Argent, horned and crined and grasping in his mouth the sword Excalibur Or all ensigned of the Crown of Scotland Proper. The granting of this badge completed the devising of badges for all the ordinary and regularly used extraordinary officer of arms titles.[2]

The office is currently held by Elizabeth A. Roads, former Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records for the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh. She was appointed to this post on the 17 December 2010.[3]

Holders of the office
Arms Name Date of appointment Ref[4]
... (was Unicorn Pursuivant) 1467
John Scrimgeour of Glaster 1511
Sir David Lydsay of the Mount 1531 [5]
John Paterson 1543 [6][7]
Alexander Guthrie 1571
Thomas Lindsay 1571
Thomas Tod 1579
James Law 1607
James Sawers 1643
Robert Porteous 1661
Andrew Grierson 1665 [8]
James Dunbar 1682
John Dale (or Daill) 1684
Peter King 1692
James Fairbairn 1703
George Philip 1712
David Dewar of Balgonie 1715
James Fordyce 1728
Joseph Strachan 1750
Kenneth Mackenzie 1767
Daniel Menzies 1821
David Alexander 1828
James Cook 1845
William Robert Montignani 1860
Vacant 1883–2010
Elizabeth A. Roads 2010–Present [3]

See also

References
  1. "The Officers of Arms in Scotland". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  2. Roads, Elizabeth Ann. "Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms". The Double Tressure (20 1998): 77–86.
  3. "No. 26893". The Edinburgh Gazette. 21 January 2011. p. 107.
  4. 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.
  5. John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol ii, p 445-446.
  6. Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, no.9 (1958), p.94.
  7. Register Privy Council Scotland, vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers in 1569
  8. Lyon Register Page 367, Number 5411.
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