It was great at the Opening of Parliament to see that the College of Arms has at last appointed a woman to be an Officer of Arms: the distinguished historian and former Master of the Worshipful Company of Fletchers, Professor Anne Curry, has been appointed Arundel Herald Extraordinary.
Of course, Scotland was the first to appoint a woman Officer, our own Vice-President Elizabeth Roads, who became Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary in 1987. Since then, Canada has had a female Chief Herald, in the late Claire Boudreau, and the current Chief Herald of Ireland is a woman, Colette O'Flaherty. We have not yet had a female Lord Lyon but Elizabeth was Lord Lyon ad interim in 2017 and in that capacity signed the Grant of Supporters to Lyon Morrow.
