Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary
The Court of the Lord Lyon
Scotland’s Heraldic Authority
Professor Gillian Black
Armorial Bearings of Professor Gillian Black
HM Linlithgow Pursuivant in Ordinary
The badge is taken from the Arms of
the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow.
Linlithgow Pursuivants since 1532
1532 Alexander Guthrie 1572 Gilbert Guthrie 1958 John Inglis Drever "Don" Pottinger 1987 Elizabeth Ann Roads 1994 Reginald John Malden 2001 John Charles Grossmith George 2010 Reginald John Malden 2012 Major Christopher George William Roads TD 2014 Liam Devlin 2016 John Stirling WS 2021 Professor Gillian Black
Badge painted by Yvonne Holton
Professor Gillian Black was
appointed Linlithgow Pursuivant
Extraordinary in September 2021.
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.
Coat of arms pending.
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