Marchmont Herald

{{Short description|Scottish officer of arms at the Court of the Lord Lyon}}

{{Infobox heraldry

|image = Badge of the Marchmont Herald.svg

|image_size = 150px

|caption = The heraldic badge of Marchmont Herald of Arms

|tradition = Gallo-British

|jurisdiction = Scotland

|authority = Court of the Lord Lyon

}}File:Banner of the Marchmont Herald.svg

Marchmont Herald of Arms is a current Scottish herald of arms of the Court of the Lord Lyon (there are six herald titles but only three heralds at any one time)

The office was first mentioned in 1438, and the title is derived from the royal castle of Marchmont, an older name for Roxburgh Castle in the Scottish Borders.[https://archive.org/details/atopographicala00haiggoog/page/n152 History of Kelso, James Haig. Edinburgh 1825. p184][https://archive.org/stream/heraldryinscotla01stev#page/48/mode/2up John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol i, p 48]

The badge of office is A tower of three castellations Vert masoned Argent, the dexter castellation Azure charged of a saltire Argent the sinister castellation Argent charged of a cross Gules, all ensigned of the Crown of Scotland Proper..{{cite journal |last1=Roads |first1=Elizabeth Ann |title=Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms |journal=The Double Tressure |issue= 20 1998 |pages=77–86}}

The office is currently held by The Hon. Adam Bruce, WS. He was appointed to this post on 2 April 2012.{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=27082|page=1037|date=17 April 2012}}

Holders of the office

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!Arms

! style="width:50%" |Name

! style="width:30%" |Date of appointment

! style="width:5%" |Ref{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_TEPAAACAAJ |title=Court of the Lord Lyon: List of His Majesty's Officers of Arms and Other Officials with Genealogical Notes, 1318-1945 |last=Grant |first=Sir Francis James |date=1945 |publisher=Society |language=en}}

!David Weymyss

|1482

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!Sir William Cumming of Inverallochy

|1494

|[https://archive.org/stream/heraldryinscotla02stev#page/n287/mode/2up John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol ii, p 445-446.]

!John Meldrum

|1515

!Adam or Alexander MacCulloch

|1562

|Register Privy Council Scotland, vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers

!Gilbert Guthrie