Dingwall Pursuivant

Yvonne Holton

Dingwall became a royal pursuivancy in 1493 when James IV defeated the Lord of the Isles who had previously employed him. There certainly was a Dingwall Pursuivant in 1476. Yvonne Holton was appointed Dingwall Pursuivant in 2011. Mrs Holton is Herald Painter to the Court of the Lord Lyon, having been appointed to the role in 2005. She started working as a Lyon Court artist in 1990 after working as a freelance jeweller designer and book illustrator. She was the 2012 winner of the de Moffarts Prize for Heraldic Arts. Besides her work producing heraldic documents, recent commissions have included the design of the £2 coin marking the tercentenary of the Union of the Parliaments, a new mace for the Lord Lyon and the Badge of the UK Supreme Court.

Armorial Bearings of Yvonne Holton

HM Dingwall Pursuivant in Ordinary

Mrs Yvonne Holton, Herald Painter at the Court of the Lord Lyon, Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms, bears the arms of her father, granted in memory of her grandfather John Cook Lamb, videlicet: Parted per fess Argent and Vert, in chief on a barrulet wavy Azure a herring drifter Sable and in base three lambs gambolling of the First.