This afternoon, Society Vice-President and Fellow, Elizabeth Roads LVO FSA, Snawdoun Herald and Secretary of the Order of the Thistle, gave the Annual St Andrew's Day Lecture of the Heraldry Society of Scotland on "The Voice of the Sovereign" to a large international audience via Zoom. This was a splendid occasion and one of the best St Andrew's Day lectures we have had. The necessity to deliver it by video-link did not faze Elizabeth at all - indeed she had already given a lecture this morning by the same method to the members of the Royal Scots Club. Her topic was essentially the wider historical role of heralds in the fields of diplomacy and ceremonial.
The second slide shows the Officers of Arms unusually in Glasgow on April 24th 1930. The occasion was the dedication of the new Mercat Cross designed by Edith Burnet Hughes.
The Officers from left to right are: Lyon Francis Grant, John Horne Stevenson (Marchmont), Sir Wolseley Haig (Albany), Sir John MacLeod of Fuinary (Rothesay), Thomas Innes of Learney (Carrick), John Paul of Cakemuir (Falkland), and Harold Lawson (Unicorn).
