04b. Unicorn Pursuivant’s Badge

04b. Unicorn Pursuivant’s Badge

Blazon of the badge: A unicorn couchant Argent, horned, unguled, maned and tufted Or, gorged of a coronet of four fleur-de-lys ( two visible ) and four crosses pattée ( one and two halves visible ) Or.

SOURCE, NOTES & CREDITS: Text for blazon from page 83, “The Double Tressure”, No. 20, 1998, in an article “Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms” by Mrs. C. G. W. Roads, then Carrick Pursuivant of Arms.

We have here the Badge of Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary, who is Roderick Alexander Macpherson, appointed on 1 September 2021.

The most recent previous holder of the office of Unicorn Pursuivant was Liam Devlin 2016-2021.

The artwork is a rendering of John Hamilton Gaylor

2021 0905

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