Carrick Pursuivant

The Court of the Lord Lyon

Scotland’s Heraldic Authority

Professor Gillian Black

Armorial Bearings of Professor Gillian Black

HM Carrick Pursuivant

Blazon: Sable two griffins passant within an orle of rope in two parts interlaced wavy of five fesswise Or.
The title of this pursuivancy is derived from that of the Earldom of Carrick, held by Robert the Bruce before his accession. The badge was designed by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney.
Professor Gillian Black was appointed Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary in September 2021 and advanced to Carrick Pursuivant in 2024. She is Professor of Scots Private Law at the University of Edinburgh, and a Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission. After qualifying as a solicitor in 2002, she took up a lectureship at Edinburgh Law School in 2005 and completed her PhD on “Publicity Rights in Scots Law” in 2009. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and remains on the non-practising roll of the Law Society of Scotland. Professor Black holds the Coronation Medal.

Carrick Pursuivants since 1364

1364 John Trupour 1478 Anon. 1526 James Anderson 1531 James Wallace 1538 John Paterson 1557 Alexander Forrester 1582 Robert Campbell 1617 James Cunningham 1622 Alexander Neilson 1633 John Spence of Brunstane 1633 Gideon Weir 1637 John Sawers 1661 Thomas Allan 1672 Willian Glover 1672 Robert Glover 1678 John Young 1679 Patrick Wilson 1699 Harry Armstrong 1706 Robert Brown 1747 George Brodie 1753 William Douglas 1771 Malcolm Grant
1790 John Grieve 1818 John Young 1827 James Gillon 1833 William Anderson 1836 William Dunnett 1855 Henry Wilson 1864 Archibald Thornburn 1879 Sir James William Mitchell, Bart. . 1879 John Spence 1883 John Grant 1884 William Macfarlane Wylie 1886 Sir Francis James Grant 1898 William Rae Macdonald 1907 Sir Duncan Alexander Dundas Campbell, Bart 1926 Sir Thomas Innes of Learney 1935 Sir Alexander Hay Seton, Bart. 1939 Alexander James Stevenson 1946 Sir James Monteith Grant 1958 Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight 1972 David John Wilson Reid of Robertland 1974 John Alexander Spens 1992 Elizabeth Ann Roads 2017 Sheriff George Way of Plean 2024 Professor Gillian Black