Snawdoun Herald of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish herald of arms in Ordinary of the Court 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 previous Snawdoun Herald of Arms to serve retired in 1883.
The office was last 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, and retired in 2021.
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.
Holders of the office ArmsName Date of appointmentRef... (was Unicorn Pursuivant)1467John Scrimgeour of Glaster1511Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount1531John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol ii, p 445-446.John Paterson1543Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, no.9 (1958), p.94.Register Privy Council Scotland, vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers in 1569Alexander Guthrie1571Thomas Lindesay1571Thomas Tod1579James Law1607James Sawers1643Robert Porteous1661Andrew Grierson1665Lyon Register Page 367, Number 5411.James Dunbar1682John Dale (or Daill)1684Peter King1692James Fairbairn1703George Philip1712David Dewar of Balgonie1715James Fordyce1728Joseph Strachan1750Kenneth Mackenzie1767Daniel Menzies1821David Alexander1828James Cook1845William Robert Montignani1860Vacant1883–2010Elizabeth A. Roads2010–2021Vacant2021–Present
See also Officer of Arms Herald Court of the Lord Lyon Heraldry Society of Scotland
References
External links The Court of the Lord Lyon
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