Officers of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

The Order of the Thistle pertains to Scotland and is the personal gift of the Sovereign.
It was founded in 1687 and has 16 Member Knights and Ladies plus a few Extra Knights and Ladies (Royal Family and Foreign Monarchs ).

Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter flory Gules; 2nd Gules three lions passant gardant in pale Or; 3rd Azure a harp Or stringed Argent

List of Sovereigns
of the
Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

Blazon of arms: Or on a bend Azure a star of six points between two crescents of the field

List of Chancellors to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

Arms: Or a saltire Gules on a chief of the last a pale Argent charged of a cross engrailed Sable.

List of the Secretaries to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

The Very Reverend Professor David Alexander Syme Fergusson, OBE, QHC, FBA, FRSE is a Scottish theologian. He was born on 3 Aug 1956 in Glasgow, is Professor of Divinity at New College at the University of Edinburgh and is a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was installed as a personal chaplain to the Queen in Nov 2015 and was appointed an Officer of The Order of the British Empire in 2016 for services to education, the arts and the Church of Scotland.

List of the Deans of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

Arms: Parted per fess enhanced Or and Purpure three piles conjoined in point all charged in chief the centre one with a maunch and the outer ones each with a long cross all counterchanged.

List of the Lyon Kings of Arms to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

The Lord Lyon King of Arms serves as the Lyon King of Arms to the Order of the Thistle

Parted per fess wavy Azure and Or in chief between two open books proper bound Or a demi-lion rampant and pendant from its sinister fore-paw a fleece all Or, and in base, in pale a naval crown Azure and a dolphin embowed Sable.

Arms: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure two rods in saltire Or ( Badge of Office), 2nd and 3rd, OR on a bend Sable three mascells Argent, a chief Azure charged with as many mullets Argent ( Brand ); Over all an inescutcheon gyrony of eight Ermine and Gules with in a bordure engrailed Gules ( Campbell of Lundy).

List of the Gentlemen Ushers of the Green Rod to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.