March Pursuivant Extraordinary
The Court of the Lord Lyon
Scotland’s Heraldic Authority
Philip Tibbetts
Armorial Bearings of Philip Tibbetts
HM March Pursuivant Extraordinary
Sable, a chain in two gorges conjoined in the centre Argent. Crest: A demi-phoenix rising displayed Or enlfamed Gules, holding in its beak a flag staff there upon a forked pennon of the liveries charged with the crest badge. Volume 93 folio 94 2020
The title of this pursuivancy first appears
in the Exchequer Rolls on 1515. The
Marches refers to the Borders. The badge
was designed by Elizabeth Roads LVO and
registered in 2013.
March Pursuivants since 1515
1515 William Brown of Balmangan 1901 Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton 1923 Sir Thomas Wolseley Haig 2021 Philip Tibbetts
Philip Tibbetts was appointed March Pursuivant Extraordinary
on September 1st 2021, having been Honorary Vexillologist to
the Lyon Court since 2018. By profession a Strategy Manager
in the Aerospace Industry, he has developed a parallel career
as Community Vexillologist to the Flag Institute and is currently
working with groups all over the United Kingdom in the
development of community flags as instruments of social
cohesion and local identity. Philip is a trustee of the Flag
Institute, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
He holds the Coronation Medal.
