Ross Herald
The Court of the Lord Lyon
Scotland’s Heraldic Authority
John Stirling WS
Armorial Bearings of John Stirling WS
HM Ross Herald
Argent on a bend Sable three buckles Or and in chief a maunch of the First. PRAABS: Volume 80 folio 22
Ross Heralds since 1476
1476 Name Unknown 1517 John Dickson 1540 Sir Robert Forman of Luthrie 1546 Robert Hart 1548 Alexander Ross 1565 Sir William Stewart of Luthrie 1592 John Purdy 1596 Andrew Littlejohn 1599 Adam Matheson 1600 Thomas WIlliamson of Mylnehill 1626 Thomas Hunter 1630 John Malcolme 1646 Andrew Littlejohn 1663 Joseph Stacey (Herald Painter) 1687 Henry Fraser (Herald Painter) 1724 Roderick Chalmers (Herald Painter)
1746 John Toulon
1765 Thomas Husband
1816 Patrick Bennet of Whiteside
1825 David Taylot
1839 George Goldie
1860 Andrew Gilman
1879 Vacant
1901 Andrew Munro Ross
1925 Vacant
1988 Charles John Burnett
2010 Charles John Burnett (Extraordinary)
2017 Mark D. Dennis (Extraordinary)
2020 Vacant
2024 John Stirling WS
John Stirling was appointed Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary in 2016, advanced to
Ormond Pursuivant in September 2021 and then to Ross Herald in 2024. He became
a solicitor in 1992, later a Writer to HM Signet, he was Clerk to HM Society of Writers
to the Signet 2002-2008 and became a solicitor advocate in 2003.
He is a partner in a firm of solicitors in Edinburgh.
He holds the Platinum Jubilee Medal and the Coronation Medal.
First mentioned in 1476, the title of
Ross Herald derives from the ancient
Earldoof Ross granted by James III to
his second son. The badge was
designed by Sir Malcolm Innes of
Edingight.
