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Unicorn Pursuivant

{{Short description|Scottish pursuivant of arms}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox heraldry

|image = Badge of the Unicorn Pursuivant.svg

|image_size = 150px

|caption = The heraldic badge of Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms

|tradition = Gallo-British

|jurisdiction = Scotland

|authority = Court of the Lord Lyon

}}

Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish pursuivant of arms in Ordinary of the Court of the Lord Lyon.{{cite web |url= https://www.courtofthelordlyon.scot/ |title=The Officers of Arms in Scotland|access-date=2 June 2011 |website=Courtofthelordlyon.scot}}

The title was created after 1381, and derived from the unicorn. One of these beasts is used as a supporter for the royal arms of Scotland, and as a royal badge.

The badge of office is A unicorn couchant Argent, horned, unguled, maned and tufted Or gorged of a coronet of four fleurs-de-lys (two visible) and four crosses pattee (one and two halves visible) Or.{{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 Roderick Alexander Macpherson. He took part in the Royal Procession at the 2023 Coronation.{{cite news |title=Coronation order of service in full |work=BBC News |date=5 May 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65503950 |access-date=6 May 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}}

!John Fraser

|1426

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!Adam Wallace of Craigie

|1467

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!William Niven

|1500

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!Thomas Pettigrew of Magdalensyde

|1507

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!John Balfour

|1528

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!Robert Hart

|1543

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!William Hardy

|1554

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!Alexander McCulloch

|1560

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!Peter Ramsay

|1567

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!Thomas Barrye

|1570

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!Robert Fraser

|1585

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!John Ramsay

|1599

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!James Fuirde

|1617

|

!John Borthwick

|1619

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!Thomas Fuirde

|1633

|

!George Wight

|1635

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!Andrew Littlejohn

|1636

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!Andrew Aitchinson

|1646

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!William Malcolm

|1660

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!William Hume

|1683

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!Sir William Erskine of Cambo, Baronet

|1707

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!James Kirkwood

|1715

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!Charles Gordon

|1719

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!William Boyd

|1741

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!James Strachan

|1760

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!Thomas Husband

|1764

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!William Douglas

|1764

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!Robert Grant

|1790

|

!David Anderson

|1796

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!David Taylor

|1806

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!James Cook

|1825

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!James Sinclair

|1845–1859

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!Andrew Gillman

|1859–1860

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!Stuart Moodie Livingstone

|1860–1902

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!John Horne Stevenson

|1902–1925

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!Sir John Mackintosh Norman MacLeod, Baronet

|1925–1929

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!Lt-Col. Harold Andrew Balvaird Lawson

|1929–1939

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!Lt-Col. Gordon Dalyell of the Binns

|1939–1953

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!Vacant

|1953–1955

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!Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Baronet

|1955–1961

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=17273|page=212|date=1 April 1955}}

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!John Inglis Drever "Don" Pottinger

|1961–1981

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=17888|page=815|date=30 December 1960}}

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!Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, Baronet

|1981–1986

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=20935|page=891|date=3 July 1981}}

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!Alastair Campbell of Airds

|1986–2008

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=22068|page=1955|date=30 December 1986}}

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!The Hon. Adam Bruce

|2008–2012

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=26645|page=2905|date=19 June 2009}}

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!Reginald John Malden

|2012–2015

|{{London Gazette|city=e|issue=27082|page=1037|date=17 April 2012}}

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!Liam Devlin

|2016–2021

|{{Cite web |url=http://www.lyon-court.com/lordlyon/1016.html |title=The Court of the Lord Lyon - |access-date=2015-11-19 |archive-date=2015-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119231337/http://www.lyon-court.com/lordlyon/1016.html |url-status=dead }}{{Edinburgh Gazette |city=e |issue=27666 |page=90 |date=20 January 2016 }}

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!Roderick Alexander Macpherson

|2021–Present

|{{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=Officeofthelordlyon.blogspot.com}}{{Cite web|title=unicorn|url=https://www.courtofthelordlyon.scot/unicorn.htm|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Courtofthelordlyon.scot}}

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://www.courtofthelordlyon.scot/ The Court of the Lord Lyon]

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