Henry Paston-Bedingfeld

Paston-Bedingfeld is the only son of Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, by his wife Joan Lynette Rees. He succeeded to the family title upon his father's death on 24 May 2011.Burke's Peerage, volume 3, 2003, page 3067 He was educated at Ampleforth College, then an all-boys Catholic private school in Ampleforth, Yorkshire.

Paston-Bedingfeld served as Rouge Croix Pursuivant from 1983,{{London Gazette|issue=49291|page=3737|date=17 March 1983}} and then in 1993 became York Herald.{{London Gazette|issue=53435|page=15437|date=23 September 1993}} In 2010 he was promoted to Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, the junior of the two provincial Kings-at-Arms, with jurisdiction over the north of England and Northern Ireland.{{cite web|url=http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/WhatsNew.htm|title=College of Arms, What's New – Norroy and Ulster King of Arms|accessdate=27 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224150658/http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/WhatsNew.htm|archive-date=24 December 2010|url-status=dead}}

In July 2014, he retired and was succeeded by Timothy Duke.[https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/news/item/99-new-norroy-ulster-king-of-arms "New Norroy and Ulster King of Arms"], College of Arms, 3 July 2014, accessed 24 September 2023.

He is an Honorary Vice-president of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society and of the Norfolk Record Society;{{Cite web |url=http://www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk/officers.html |title=www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk |access-date=10 March 2015 |archive-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630182033/http://www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk/officers.html |url-status=dead }} Sir Henry is also a liveryman of the Bowyers' Company and served as Master of the Scriveners' Company for 2012–13.

In 1968, Paston-Bedingfield married Mary Kathleen, a daughter of Brigadier Robert Ambrose CIE OBE MC, and they have two sons and two daughters; their elder son, Richard (born 1975) is heir apparent to the baronetcy.

Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfield is the current Coordinator of the Commission and Association for the Armigerous Families of Great Britain.

• Derby Grammar SchoolHeraldry Gazette NS 67 (March 1998), 6.
• Institute of Traffic Accident InspectorsThe Heraldry Gazette NS 64 (June 1997), 6.
• Royal Society of St GeorgeHeraldry Gazette NS 67 (March 1998), 7.

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• Heraldry
• College of Arms
• Oxburgh Hall
• Paston-Bedingfeld baronets

{{reflist|30em}}

• [http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/p/2655/Henry%20Edgar%20(PASTON-)%20BEDINGFELD.aspx Biography on Debrett's People of Today website]
• [http://www.baronetage.org/ Standing Council of the Baronetage website]
• [http://www.scriveners.org.uk/ www.scriveners.org.uk]

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