HM 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.