Dingwall Pursuivant

Dingwall Pursuivant

The heraldic badge of Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms
Heraldic tradition	Gallo-British
Jurisdiction	Scotland
Governing body	Court of the Lord Lyon

Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms is a current Scottish pursuivant of arms of the Court of the Lord Lyon.^[1]

Dingwall Pursuivant was formerly a private officer of arms in the service of the Lord of the Isles, but along with Kintyre Pursuivant, Ross Herald, and Islay Herald became an officer of arms to the Scottish Crown when the Lord of the Isles forfeited his estates and titles to James IV of Scotland in 1493.

The badge of office is A mullet within an annulet rayonnee Or and enfiled in chief of a coronet of four fleurs-de-lys (two visible) and four crosses pattee (one and two halves visible) Or.^[2]

The office is currently vacant.

Holders of the office

Arms	Name	Date of appointment	Ref[3]
	James Aikman	1460
	David Blyth	1580
	David Spens	1545
	Sir David Lindsay of Rathillet	1545
	John Brown	1565
	William Henderson	1566	[4]
	John Purdy	1590
	Daniel Graham	1596
	John Yellowlees	1603
	Gilbert Hunter	1617
	Alexander Murray	1661
	Robert Knox	1668
	James Dunbar	1675
	James Guthrie	1682
	David Auchmouty of Drummeldrie	1712
	William Gray	1718
	Hugh Spark	1747
	William Gordon of Craig and Holm	1761
	James Mitchell	1774
	Robert Thomson	1795
	David Alexander	1823
	Alexander MacCulloch Anderson	1828
	John Neill	1830
	Samuel Bough	1864–1878
	Vacant	1878–1939
	Major Charles Ian Fraser of Reelig	1939–1953
	Vacant	1953–1983
	Charles John Burnett	1983–1988	[5]
	Vacant	1988–2011
	Yvonne Holton	2011–2021	[6][7]
	Vacant	2021–Present

See also

• Officer of Arms
• Pursuivant
• Court of the Lord Lyon
• Heraldry Society of Scotland

References

1. "The Officers of Arms in Scotland". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 25 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. Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 10 (1913), 489, 515
5. "No. 21452". The Edinburgh Gazette. 30 December 1983. p. 1959.
6. "No. 26958". The Edinburgh Gazette. 28 June 2011. p. 1179.
7. "Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.

External links

• The Court of the Lord Lyon