Rothesay Herald

{{Infobox heraldry

|image = Badge of the Rothesay Herald.svg

|image_size = 150px

|caption = The heraldic badge of Rothesay Herald of Arms

|tradition = Gallo-British

|jurisdiction = Scotland

|authority = Court of the Lord Lyon

}}

Rothesay Herald of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish herald of arms in Ordinary of the Court of the Lord Lyon.{{cite web |url=http://www.lyon-court.com/lordlyon/CCC_FirstPage.jsp |title=The Officers of Arms in Scotland|access-date=2 June 2011 |work=The Court of the Lord Lyon}}

The office was created after 1398 when the dukedom of Rothesay was conferred on David, eldest son of King Robert III, on 28 April 1398. This was the first ducal creation ever granted in Scotland.

The badge of office is Two fleurs-de-lys Gules surmounted of a three point label chequy Azure and Argent and 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 George Way of Plean, Baron of Plean.{{cn|date=January 2023}}

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}}

!... (was Carrick Pursuivant)

|1479

!... Banelee

|1507

!Robert Hart

|1533

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!Sir David Lindsay of Rathillet

|1557

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

!John Forman

|1568

|Register Privy Council Scotland, vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers in 1569

!Florens Douglas

|1574

!James Borthwick

|1597

!William Craig

|1607

!John Spence of Wormiston

|1633

!James Ewing

|1661

|[https://archive.org/stream/earlofstirlingsr02alex#page/664 The Earl of Stirling's Register of Royal Letters relative to the affairs of Scotland and Nova Scotia from 1615 to 1635, vol.2 (1885), p.665.]

!Hierome Spence of Brunstane

|1667

!William Glover

|1633

!Walter Melville

|1697

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!David Erskine

|1718

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!George Glass

|1724

!John Brodie

|1746

!George Brodie

|1753

!William Douglas

|1790

!Robert Dick

|1804

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!James Lorimer of Kellyfield

|1822

!Vacant

|1868–1879

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!Sir James William Mitchell, Baronet

|1879–1898

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!Sir Francis James Grant

|1898–1929

!Sir John Mackintosh Norman MacLeod, Baronet

|1929–1939

!Lt-Col. Harold Andrew Balvaird Lawson
(Office used in Extraordinary from 1981)

|1939–1986

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=20923|page=780|date=12 June 1981}}

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!Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, Baronet

|1986–2021

|{{London Gazette

| issue = 21986

| date = 5 August 1986

| page = 1185

| city = e

}}

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!Liam Devlin Esq.

|2021–2024

|{{Cite web|title=New Appointments at the Lyon Court|url=http://officeofthelordlyon.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-appointments-at-lyon-court.html|access-date=2021-09-01|website=New Appointments at the Lyon Court}}{{Cite web|title=rothesay|url=https://www.courtofthelordlyon.scot/rothesay.htm|access-date=2021-09-01|website=www.courtofthelordlyon.scot}}

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!George Way of Plean, Baron of Plean

|2024–Present

|{{Cite web|title=rothesay|url=https://www.courtofthelordlyon.scot/rothesay.htm|access-date=2024-08-01|website=www.courtofthelordlyon.scot}}

References

External links

[http://www.lyon-court.com/ The Court of the Lord Lyon]

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Rothesay Herald

Holders of the office

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