Bute Pursuivant
The Court of the Lord Lyon
Scotland’s Heraldic Authority
Colin Caldwell Russell
Armorial Bearings of Colin Caldwell Russell
HM Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary
Arms: Argent, on a chevron Gules between, in chief a seme of powts Proper and, in base a fountain, a Celtic cross of the first. Crest; two hands cradling a foot proper, with the motto; "Sure and Stedfast". PRAABS Volume 93 folio 17
Bute Pursuivants since 1528
1528 Robert Hart 1535 Peter Thomson 1554 Adam McCulloch 1561 John Calder 1590 John Blinsele 1598 William McKieson 1610 Eleazer Mackesone 1636 John Thomson 1647 William Malcolm 1661 James Alisone 1675 John Hoge 1704 John Wright 1707 Sir Charles Erskine of Cambo 1715 George Glass
1724 Alexander Thomson
1765 John Douglas
1768 George Douglas of Torquhine
1776 Archibald Campbell
1796 Alexander Law
1821 Daniel Menzies
1822 Ebenezer Macgeorge
1833 David Littlejohn
1838 William Goodall Bayley
1851 Walter Ferguson
1884 Robert Spence Livingstone
1885 Andrew Ross
1888 John Thomas Loth
1899 James Kerr Lamont
2001 William David Hamilton Sellar
2024 Colin Caldwell Russell
Colin Caldwell Russell was appointed Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary on 1st September
2021 and advanced to Bute Pursuivant in 2024.
He is a Specialist Podiatrist working for NHS Scotland. He is an Officer of the Venerable
Order of St John of Jerusalem and Cross-Bearer for the Priory of Scotland; he is a Knight of
Justice and Secretary General of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem
Grand Bailiwick of Scotland, and is a Worship Leader and an Interim Moderator in Presbytery
of Forth Valley and Clydesdale of the Church of Scotland . Colin Russell is a Member of the
Royal College of Podiatry and a member of the Incorporation of Tailors of Glasgow.
He holds the Coronation Medal.
First mentioned in 1488 the title of Bute
Pursuivant derives from the Island of
Bute where the royal castle of Rothesay
is situated. The badge was designed by
David Sellar and Lyon Blair.
