05c. Bute Pursuivant

05c. Bute Pursuivant

Blazon: Argent, on a chevron Gules between, in chief a seme of powts Proper and, in base a fountain, a Celtic cross of the first.

SOURCE/NOTES & CREDITS: Background illustration and blazon from the website of the Court of the Lord Lyon. The text is from biographical information found in the website of the Court of the Lord Lyon. The text used was based on and adapted from these sources.

The Bute Pursuivant is Colin Caldwell Russell appointed on 1 August 2024. Russell is a podiatrist specialist who works for the National Health Service Scotland. He is an officer of the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Russell is a Worship Leader and an Interim Moderator in Hamilton Presbytery of the Church of Scotland. He is also a Member of the Royal College of Podiatry and a Member of the Incorporation of Tailors of Glasgow.

The most recent previous holder of the office of Bute Pursuivant was William David Hamilton Sellar

The artwork is a rendering of John Hamilton Gaylor

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