Rouge Dragon Pursuivant
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Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms
, named after the red dragon of Wales
.
The most recent Rouge Dragon Pursuivant was Clive Edwin Alexander Cheesman
, whose replacement has yet to be announced.
College of Arms
The College of Arms, or Heralds’ College, is an office regulating heraldry and granting new armorial bearings for England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
, named after the red dragon of Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
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The most recent Rouge Dragon Pursuivant was Clive Edwin Alexander Cheesman
Clive Cheesman
Clive Edwin Alexander Cheesman is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London, and is currently Richmond Herald, having been appointed on 7 April 2010. Cheesman was formerly a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum. He was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in...
, whose replacement has yet to be announced.
Holders of the office
Brackets indicate a date or approximate date for which there is evidence that the named person was holder of this office. The reigning monarch is given if the date is not known more precisely.- (Hen VIIHenry VII of EnglandHenry VII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor....
) William Tyndale or Tendale - (Hen VII/Hen VIIIHenry VIII of EnglandHenry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
) Thomas Bysley - (1521) William Hasyng or Hastings
- 1530-1536 Thomas Mylner or Milner or Miller
- 1536-1539 Fulk ap Howell
- 1539-1553 Martin Maroffe
- 1553-1564 William Colbarne or Cowarne
- 1564-1574 Edmund Knight
- 1574-1588 Nicholas Paddy
- 1588-1597 John Raven
- 1597-1618 William Smith
- 1618-1624 John PhilipotJohn PhilipotJohn Philipot was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Though he successfully attained the position on Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary, he is best known for his production of a roll of arms of the Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports.Philipot was born at Folkestone in 1588 and was...
- 1624-1638 Thomas Thompson
- 1638-1661 William CrowneWilliam CrowneWilliam Crowne had a varied career as an officer of arms, a Member of Parliament, a colonel during the English civil war, and one of the early colonists of North America...
- 1661-1676 Francis Sandford
- 1676-1677 Thomas May
- 1677-1689 Gregory KingGregory KingGregory King was an English genealogist, engraver and statistician.-Life:Gregory King was born at Lichfield, England. His father was a surveyor and landscape gardener. Gregory was a very bright boy and his father used him as an assistant in his surveying work. At 14 Gregory became a clerk to...
- 1689- Peers Mauduit
- (Will IIIWilliam III of EnglandWilliam III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...
) Hugh Clopton - (Will III) John Hare
- 1704- Dudley Downs
- (Geo IGeorge I of Great BritainGeorge I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698....
) Arthur Shepherd - 1756-1758 Henry Hill
- 1758-1763 Thomas Sherrif
- 1763-1774 Thomas Locke
- 1774-1780 Ralph Bigland, jun
- 1780-1786 Benjamin Pingo
- 1786-1797 James Monson Philips
- 1797-1813 James Cathrow
- 1813-1820 Charles George Young
- 1820-1833 Francis Townsend
- 1833-1833 James Rock
- 1833-1848 Thomas William King
- 1848-1859 Edward Stephen DendyEdward Stephen DendyEdward Stephen Dendy was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms during the nineteenth Century.He was one of ten children born to Stephen Cooper Dendy and Miramne Dubbins in Horsham, Sussex, England...
- 1859-1870 George Edward CokayneGeorge CokayneGeorge Edward Cokayne FSA was an English genealogist and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.-Life:...
, Esq., FSASociety of Antiquaries of LondonThe Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is... - 1870-1880 Sir William Henry Weldon, KCVORoyal Victorian OrderThe Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...
, FSA - 1880-1886 Sir Alfred Scott Scott-GattyAlfred Scott-GattySir Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty, KCVO, KStJ, FSA was a long serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London and a successful composer.-Personal life:...
, KCVO, KJStJVenerable Order of Saint JohnThe Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem , is a royal order of chivalry established in 1831 and found today throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, Hong Kong, Ireland and the United States of America, with the world-wide mission "to prevent and relieve sickness and...
, FSA - 1886-1893 Sir Albert William WoodsAlbert WoodsSir Albert William Woods, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, KGStJ, FSA was an English officer of arms. The Woods family has a firm tradition at the College of Arms. Albert Woods was the son of Sir William Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms from 1838 until his death in 1842...
, GCVORoyal Victorian OrderThe Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...
, KCBOrder of the BathThe Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, KCMGOrder of St Michael and St GeorgeThe Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
, KGStJ, FSA - 1893-1911 Everard GreenEverard GreenEverard Green, FSA was an English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He began his heraldic career in 1893 with his appointment as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary. He continued in this post until 9 October 1911 when he was appointed Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary...
, Esq., FSA - 1911-1919 Sir Algar Henry Stafford HowardAlgar HowardSir Algar Henry Stafford Howard, KCB, KCVO, MC, TD was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London...
, KCB, KCVO, MCMilitary CrossThe Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....
, TDTerritorial DecorationThe Territorial Decoration was a medal of the United Kingdom awarded for long service in the Territorial Force and its successor, the Territorial Army... - 1919-1922 Lt. Alexander Warren Drury Mitton
- 1922-1926 Sir John Dunamace Heaton-ArmstrongJohn Heaton-ArmstrongSir John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong, MVO was a long-serving English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.During the First World War he was commissioned into the Cavalry Branch of the Reserve of Officers of the British Indian Army as a second lieutenant, and was later promoted to...
, MVORoyal Victorian OrderThe Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys... - 1926-1941 Eric Neville Geijer, Esq., MC, FSA
- 1946-1951 Michael Roger Trappes-LomaxMichael Trappes-LomaxMichael Roger Trappes-Lomax, FSA was a poet, soldier, historian, and officer of arms at the College of Arms in London...
, Esq., FSA - 1952-1962 Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees, Esq.
- 1962-1968 Sir Conrad Marshall John Fisher SwanConrad SwanSir Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan, was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Having been first appointed to work at the College in 1962, he rose to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms in 1992, a position he held until 1995...
, KCVO, PhDDoctor of PhilosophyDoctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
, FSA - 1970-1978 Theobald MathewTheobald Mathew (officer of arms)Theobald David Mathew was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.Theobald Mathew was the son of solicitor Robert Mathew and Joan Young, and great-nephew of Sir Arthur Cochrane, Clarenceux King of Arms from 1928 to 1954...
, Esq. - 1978-1989 Patric Laurence DickinsonPatric Laurence DickinsonPatric Laurence Dickinson, LVO is Clarenceux King of Arms.Dickinson was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire before going up to Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated as MA. He was President of the Oxford Union Society and was subsequently called to the bar at the Middle Temple...
, Esq. - 1989-1995 Timothy Hugh Stewart DukeTimothy DukeTimothy Hugh Stewart Duke is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Duke began his career as an officer of arms in 1989 when he was appointed Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary. He held this position until 7 August 1995, when he was appointed Chester Herald of Arms in Ordinary...
, Esq. - 1998-2010 Clive Edwin Alexander CheesmanClive CheesmanClive Edwin Alexander Cheesman is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London, and is currently Richmond Herald, having been appointed on 7 April 2010. Cheesman was formerly a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum. He was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in...
, Esq., PhD