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Rouge Croix Pursuivant
BERJAYA
The heraldic badge of Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary
 
Heraldic traditionGallo-British
JurisdictionEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Governing bodyCollege of Arms

Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms. He is said to be the oldest of the four pursuivants in ordinary. The office is named after St George's Cross which has been a symbol of England since the time of the Crusades.

The current Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is Thomas Johnston. He took part in the Royal Procession at the 2023 Coronation.[1]


Holders of the office

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Arms Name Date of appointment Ref
Nicholas Serby (Henry IV)
BERJAYA Richard Boys (Henry IV)
Giles Waster (Henry V)
BERJAYA Roger Legh or Lygh (Henry V)
BERJAYA John Writhe (Henry V)
John Mowbray (1422)
BERJAYA Robert Ashwell (Henry VI)
BERJAYA James Billett (Henry VI)
BERJAYA John Mallett (Henry VI)
Robert Dunham (Henry VI)
BERJAYA Richard Ashwell (Henry VI)
BERJAYA John Ballard (Henry VI)
BERJAYA Thomas Holme (Henry VI)
BERJAYA John More (Henry VI)
BERJAYA William Carlill (Edward IV)
BERJAYA Roger Stamford (Edward IV)
BERJAYA Richard Slacke (Edward IV)
BERJAYA John Water or Walter (Edward IV)
BERJAYA Thomas Benolt (Edward IV)
BERJAYA Thomas Waters (Edward IV)
BERJAYA Robert Browne (Edward IV)
BERJAYA William Jenyns (Edward IV)
BERJAYA Thomas Tonge (Edward IV)
George Berry (1484)
Richard Greenwood (1485)
(name unknown) (1492)
BERJAYA William Wriothesley 1505–1509
BERJAYA Thomas Hawley 1509–1515
Laurence de la Gatta 1515–1520
BERJAYA Thomas Wall 1521–1521
BERJAYA Charles Wriothesley 1524–1535
BERJAYA Bartholomew Butler 1535–1538
Thomas Stevenson 1538–1540
BERJAYA Gilbert Dethick 1540–1541
BERJAYA Justinian Barker 1541–1543
BERJAYA William Flower 1543–1546
BERJAYA Lawrence Dalton 1546–1547
Simon Newbald (Edward VI)
Nicholas Tubman 1551–1553
BERJAYA Henry Cotgrove 1553–1566
BERJAYA William Dethick 1566–1569
Thomas Dawes 1569–1580
BERJAYA Ralph Brooke 1580–1592
BERJAYA Thomas Knight 1592–1604
William Wyrley 1604–1619
John Guillim 1619–1621
BERJAYA Augustine Vincent 1621–1624
BERJAYA John Bradshaw 1624–1626
BERJAYA George Owen 1626–1637
BERJAYA Edward Walker 1637–1638
Henry Lilly 1638–1639
BERJAYA William Dugdale 1639–?
BERJAYA Robert Browne (intruded)
Everard Exton (intruded)
BERJAYA Henry Dethick 1660–1677
Henry Ball 1677–1686
BERJAYA Charles Mawson 1686–1688
BERJAYA Samuel Stebbing 1688–?
BERJAYA Peter Le Neve (Anne)
John Bound (Anne)
Richard Graham 1722–1725
Richard Pomfret 1725–1751
Alexander Cozens 1751–1752
BERJAYA Henry Hastings 1752?–1773
BERJAYA John Charles Brooke 1773–1777
Francis Townsend 1777–1784 [2]
BERJAYA John Atkinson 1784–1794
BERJAYA Joseph Hawker 1794–1803 [3]
William Radclyffe 1803–1823 [4]
BERJAYA Robert Laurie 1823–1839 [5]
BERJAYA William Courthope 1839–1854 [6]
BERJAYA James Planché 1854–1866 [7]
BERJAYA John de Havilland 1866–1872 [8]
BERJAYA Stephen Tucker 1872–1880 [9]
BERJAYA Sir Henry Farnham Burke 1880–1887 [10]
BERJAYA George William Marshall 1887–1904 [11]
BERJAYA Sir Arthur Cochrane 1904–1915 [12]
BERJAYA Archibald Russell 1915–1922 [13]
BERJAYA Henry Robert Charles Martin 1922–1928 [14]
Philip Walter Kerr 1928–1941 [15]
BERJAYA John Walker 1947–1954
BERJAYA Sir Walter Verco 1954–1960
BERJAYA Rodney Dennys 1961–1967 [16]
BERJAYA (David) Hubert Chesshyre
 1970–1978 [17]
BERJAYA Sir Thomas Woodcock 1978–1982 [18]
BERJAYA Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet 1983–1993 [19]
BERJAYA David White 1995–2004 [20]
BERJAYA John Allen-Petrie 2013–2019 [21][22]
Thomas Andrew Johnston, Esq. 2023–present [23]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "No. 11849". The London Gazette. 14 February 1778. p. 1.
  3. ↑ "No. 13642". The London Gazette. 15 April 1794. p. 344.
  4. ↑ "No. 15586". The London Gazette. 21 May 1803. p. 605.
  5. ↑ "No. 17948". The London Gazette. 12 August 1823. p. 1325.
  6. ↑ "No. 19702". The London Gazette. 1 February 1839. p. 190.
  7. ↑ "No. 21521". The London Gazette. 14 February 1854. p. 427.
  8. ↑ "No. 23152". The London Gazette. 17 August 1866. p. 4593.
  9. ↑ "No. 23895". The London Gazette. 10 September 1872. p. 3969.
  10. ↑ "No. 24877". The London Gazette. 27 August 1880. p. 4677.
  11. ↑ "No. 25736". The London Gazette. 6 September 1887. p. 4825.
  12. ↑ "No. 27712". The London Gazette. 9 September 1904. p. 5839.
  13. ↑ "No. 29364". The London Gazette. 12 November 1915. p. 11186.
  14. ↑ "No. 32717". The London Gazette. 6 June 1922. p. 4328.
  15. ↑ "No. 33411". The London Gazette. 10 July 1928. p. 5363.
  16. ↑ "No. 42432". The London Gazette. 8 August 1961. p. 5852.
  17. ↑ "No. 47659". The London Gazette. 9 October 1978. p. 11997.
  18. ↑ "No. 47661". The London Gazette. 12 October 1978. p. 12091.
  19. ↑ "No. 49291". The London Gazette. 17 March 1983. p. 3737.
  20. ↑ "No. 54252". The London Gazette. 28 December 1995. p. 17450.
  21. ↑ "No. 60665". The London Gazette. 23 October 2013. p. 20913.
  22. ↑ "New Rouge Croix Pursuivant appointed". College of Arms. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  23. ↑ "No. 63979". The London Gazette. 24 February 2023. p. 3638.

Further reading

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  • The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
  • A History of the College of Arms &c, Mark Noble, (London, 1804)
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