Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary
The Court of the Lord Lyon
Scotland’s Heraldic Authority
Major Neil Kilpatrick Cargill MVO
The title of Falkland Pursuivant first
appears in the Exchequer Rolls of 1494.
The title alludes to the royal palace of that
name in Fife. The badge was registered in
1998.
Falkland Pursuivants since 1532
1515 William Brown of Balmangan 1532 Alexander Guthrie 1548 John Forsyth 1927 Lt-Col. John William Balfour Paul of Cakemuir 1951 Iain Moncreiffe of Easter Moncreiffe 1953 John Inglis Drever Pottinger 1953 David Hugh Montgomerie Boyle 1957 Malcolm Innes of Edingight 1958 David Hugh Montgomerie Boyle 1966 Major Charles John Shaw of Tordarroch 1969 Major David Maitland Maitland-Titterton 1973 Lord James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton
Major Neil Kilpatrick Cargill was appointed Falkland Pursuivant
Extraordinary on 1st August 2024. Major Cargill is a serving
British Army Officer in The Royal Regiment of Scotland. Before
attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he read
Economics at the University of Aberdeen. Of particular note,
Major Cargill was the principal military planner for the execution
of Operation UNICORN and Operation SCEPTRE, in direct
support of The Court of the Lord Lyon, for which HM The KIng
created him a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in August
2024.
1975 Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
1977 Brigadier Francis Henderson Coutts CBE
1982 Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
1990 Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick
1991 Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
1996 Major Christopher G.W. Roads TD
1997 Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
2016 Sheriff George Way of Plean
2018 Roderick Alexander Macpherson
2021 Colin Caldwell Russell
2024 Major Neil Kilpatrick Cargill MVO
