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Archive Department. The Librarian of the College of Arms, currently Mark Scott, Somerset Herald, oversees the Archive Department. This department, headed by the Archivist Dr James Lloyd, is responsible for the preservation, ordering, and cataloguing of the archive and library, and the accession of new acquisitions. The Archivist also arranges ...
Sir Thomas Woodcock, KCVO, Garter King of Arms, retired from the College of Arms on 30 June 2021. He graduated from Durham University, and then read for an LLB at Cambridge, before being called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. In 1975 he joined the heraldic practice of Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms, and was appointed Rouge Croix ...
The College of Arms maintains the official registers of pedigrees or family trees of families. The oldest of these date to the sixteenth century and they are continually added to today as new pedigrees are submitted for registration. In some cases pedigrees are recorded to prove an inherited right to arms, or to support the descent of a dignity ...
Services - College of Arms. Heralds have been genealogists since the fifteenth century. The hereditary nature of arms encouraged them to develop scientific genealogical methods at an early date. Sir William Dugdale (died 1686), Garter King of Arms, was one of the greatest pioneers of modern genealogical research in England.
Private visit to the College of Arms, Tuesday 23rd May at 6 for 6.15pm – 8.45pm 130 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BT. The College of Arms offers a fascinating insight into the importance of Heraldry in British history and its continuation in the 21st century. Heraldry dates back to 1127 and from the 12th Century Heralds were attached to ...
Garter King of Arms is the senior of the three English Kings of Arms. The office takes its name from the Order of the Garter. Henry V instituted the office of Garter in 1415 just before sailing for France. Official arms in use by circa 1520: Argent a Cross Gules on a Chief Azure a crown enclosed in a Garter between a lion passant guardant and a ...
College of Arms. The College of Arms, in London is one of the few remaining government heraldic authorities in Europe. It was founded in 1484 by King Richard III, and its job is to control heraldry and grant new armorial bearings, sometime called coats of arms . The college is run by the Kings of Arms, heralds and pursuivants who handle ...
