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The Lord Lyon attended the Royal Celtic Society lunch-time lecture by Professor Ewen Cameron of Edinburgh University on Land Reform in Scotland since 1909. The Lord Lyon and Robin Blair CVO with
the Rt Hon Earl of Dalhousie were elected as Vice Presidents of the Society.
Unicorn Pursuivant attended the ceremony this evening at St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh, when the Archbishop welcomed the arrival of the mortal remains of the great saint and Doctor of the Church, St Therese of Lisieux who died in 1897.
The Annual Memorial Service was held on the 7h September at the Submarine Memorial in Dundee Harbour with a reception in the City Chambers. It was attended by the Lord Lyon and ex-submariners from a number of countries.
The Chancellor of the Order of St John in Scotland (the Lord Lyon) presented awards to family members who have recently lost a loved one who have donated an organ. The ceremony was held in the Botanic Gardens Edinburgh with about 200 people present.
The Lord Lyon has presented a grant of arms to Robert Norman Macleod. The artist is Clare McCrory. The blazon is: "Parted per fess enarched Azure and Or, in chief two galleys of the Second, in base a mountain Azure in flames."
Sir Robert Menzies, (1894 – 1978), Prime Minister of Australia. Crest on display in the Scots Church, Melbourne. " A demi-lion Gules its dexter paw upon a baton Sable, about its head a chaplet of Menzies heath and issuant therefrom a panache of five plumes Gules and Argent."
Crest of the Day:
Today's crest belongs to John Scott Maclay, Viscount Muirshiel (1905-1964): "A lymphad sail furled Sable pennants Gules."
Crest of the Day: Today's crest belongs to Sir Iain Mark Tennant (1919-2006):
"A mast with rigging and a sail hoisted Proper."
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Today's crest belongs to Sir James Wilson Robertson (1899-1983), the last British Governor-General of Nigeria. "A dexter hand erect holding a chaplet of cotton balls and jute sprays Proper."
Just to complete this little stylistic survey, here is the splendid 1968 version, presumably by Herald Painter Katherine Chart, for Rt Hon Ethel Sydney Keith, Countess of Kintore in her own right.