Rouge Croix Pursuivant

{{Short description|Officer of the College of Arms}}

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|tradition = Gallo-British

|jurisdiction = England, Wales and Northern Ireland

|authority = College of Arms

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Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms. He is said to be the oldest of the four pursuivants in ordinary. The office is named after St George's Cross which has been a symbol of England since the time of the Crusades.

The current Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is Thomas Johnston. He took part in the Royal Procession at the 2023 Coronation.{{cite web |title=Coronation order of service in full |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65503950 |website=BBC News |access-date=6 May 2023}}

Holders of the office

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!Arms

! style="width:55%" |Name

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

! style="width:5%" |Ref

|Nicholas Serby

|

|Richard Boys

|(Henry IV)

|

|Giles Waster

|

|Roger Legh or Lygh

|(Henry V)

|

|(Henry V)

|

|John Mowbray

|(1422)

|

|Robert Ashwell

|

|James Billett

|(Henry VI)

|

|John Mallett

|(Henry VI)

|

|Robert Dunham

|(Henry VI)

|

|Richard Ashwell

|(Henry VI)

|

|John Ballard

|(Henry VI)

|

|Thomas Holme

|(Henry VI)

|

|John More

|(Henry VI)

|

|William Carlill

|

|Roger Stamford

|(Edward IV)

|

|Richard Slacke

|(Edward IV)

|

|John Water or Walter

|(Edward IV)

|

|Thomas Benolt

|(Edward IV)

|

|Thomas Waters

|(Edward IV)

|

|Robert Browne

|(Edward IV)

|

|William Jenyns

|(Edward IV)

|

|Thomas Tonge

|(Edward IV)

|

|George Berry

|(1484)

|

|Richard Greenwood

|(1485)

|

|(name unknown)

|(1492)

|

|William Wriothesley

|1505–1509

|

|1509–1515

|

|Laurence de la Gatta

|1515–1520

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|Thomas Wall

|1521–1521

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|Charles Wriothesley

|1524–1535

|

|Bartholomew Butler

|1535–1538

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|Thomas Stevenson

|1538–1540

|

|Gilbert Dethick

|1540–1541

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|Justinian Barker

|1541–1543

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|William Flower

|1543–1546

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|Lawrence Dalton

|1546–1547

|

|Simon Newbald

|

|Nicholas Tubman

|1551–1553

|

|Henry Cotgrove

|1553–1566

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|William Dethick

|1566–1569

|

|Thomas Dawes

|1569–1580

|

|1580–1592

|

|Thomas Knight

|1592–1604

|

|William Wyrley

|1604–1619

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|1619–1621

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|Augustine Vincent

|1621–1624

|

|John Bradshaw

|1624–1626

|

|1626–1637

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|1637–1638

|

|Henry Lilly

|1638–1639

|

|William Dugdale

|1639–?

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|Robert Browne

|(intruded)

|

|Everard Exton

|(intruded)

|

|Henry Dethick

|1660–1677

|

|Henry Ball

|1677–1686

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|Charles Mawson

|1686–1688

|

|Samuel Stebbing

|1688–?

|

|

|John Bound

|(Anne)

|

|Richard Graham

|1722–1725

|

|Richard Pomfret

|1725–1751

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|Alexander Cozens

|1751–1752

|

|Henry Hastings

|1752?–1773

|

|John Charles Brooke

|1773–1777

|

|Francis Townsend

|1777–1784

|{{London Gazette |issue=11849 |page=1 |date=14 February 1778 |nolink=yes }}

|John Atkinson

|1784–1794

|

|Joseph Hawker

|1794–1803

|{{London Gazette |issue=13642 |page=344 |date=15 April 1794 |nolink=yes }}

|William Radclyffe

|1803–1823

|{{London Gazette |issue=15586 |page=605 |date=21 May 1803 |nolink=yes }}

|Robert Laurie

|1823–1839

|{{London Gazette |issue=17948 |page= 1325 |date=12 August 1823 |nolink=yes }}

|William Courthope

|1839–1854

|{{London Gazette |issue=19702 |page=190 |date=1 February 1839 |nolink=yes }}

|James Planché

|1854–1866

|{{London Gazette |issue=21521 |page=427 |date=14 February 1854 |nolink=yes }}

|John de Havilland

|1866–1872

|{{London Gazette |issue=23152 |page=4593 |date=17 August 1866 |nolink=yes }}

|Stephen Tucker

|1872–1880

|{{London Gazette |issue=23895 |page=3969 |date=10 September 1872 |nolink=yes }}

|Sir Henry Farnham Burke

|1880–1887

|{{London Gazette |issue=24877 |page=4677 |date=27 August 1880 |nolink=yes }}

|George William Marshall

|1887–1904

|{{London Gazette |issue=25736 |page=4825 |date=6 September 1887 |nolink=yes }}

|Sir Arthur Cochrane

|1904–1915

|{{London Gazette |issue=27712 |page=5839 |date=9 September 1904 |nolink=yes }}

|Archibald Russell

|1915–1922

|{{London Gazette |issue=29364 |page=11186 |date=12 November 1915 |nolink=yes }}

|Henry Robert Charles Martin

|1922–1928

|{{London Gazette |issue=32717 |page=4328 |date=6 June 1922 |nolink=yes }}

|Lord Walter Kerr

|1928–1941

|

|1947–1954

|

|Sir Walter Verco

|1954–1960

|

|1961–1967

|{{London Gazette |issue=42432 |page=5852 |date=8 August 1961 |nolink=yes }}

|(David) Hubert Chesshyre

|1970–1978

|{{London Gazette |issue=47659 |page=11997 |date=9 October 1978 |nolink=yes }}

|Sir Thomas Woodcock

|1978–1982

|{{London Gazette |issue=47661 |page=12091 |date=12 October 1978 |nolink=yes }}

|Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet

|1983–1993

|{{London Gazette |issue=49291 |page=3737 |date=17 March 1983 |nolink=yes }}

|1995–2004

|{{London Gazette |issue= 54252 |page=17450 |date=28 December 1995 |nolink=yes }}

|John Allen-Petrie

|2013–2019

|{{London Gazette |issue=60665 |page=20913 |date=23 October 2013 |nolink=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/news/item/87-new-rouge-croix-pursuivant-appointed |title=New Rouge Croix Pursuivant appointed |publisher=College of Arms |access-date=2016-01-23}}

|Thomas Andrew Johnston, Esq.

|2023–present

|{{London Gazette |issue=63979 |page=3638 |date=24 February 2023 |nolink=yes }}

See also

References

Further reading

The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
A History of the College of Arms &c, Mark Noble, (London, 1804)

External links

[http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk The College of Arms]
[http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuhags/info/o_of_a/intro.htm CUHGS Officer of Arms Index]

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