Elizabeth Roads

Elizabeth Ann Roads, LVO OStJ (née Bruce; born 1951) is a Scottish herald, currently the Snawdoun Herald; in July 2018 she retired as Lyon Clerk at the Court of the Lord Lyon[1] in favour of Russell Hunter.

Personal life and education

Elizabeth Roads is the daughter of Lt Col. James Bruce MC and his wife Mary Hope Sinclair. She was born in 1951 and educated at Lansdowne House in Edinburgh, the Cambridgeshire College of Technology, the Study Centre for Fine Art in London, and Edinburgh Napier University (LLB with distinction). She married Christopher Roads in 1983, and they have two sons Timothy and William and a daughter Emily.

Heraldic career

Elizabeth Roads joined the staff of the Court of the Lord Lyon in 1975 and was appointed Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records in 1986 an office she held until her retirement in 2018. In this position, she maintained, among other things, the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. She was appointed Linlithgow Pursuivant in 1987, becoming the first female [[Officer of Arms|officer of arms] in the world]. This was a temporary appointment, when she represented the Lord Lyon in Canada in the discussions that led to the establishment of the Canadian Heraldic Authority. Roads was appointed Carrick Pursuivant in 1992 and promoted to Snowdoun Herald in 2010. She was appointed Secretary of the Order of the Thistle in 2014. [2]

As Elizabeth Bruce, Roads was a founder member of the Heraldry Society of Scotland in 1977. She was Chairman of that Society in the late 1990s and is now a Fellow of the Heraldry Society of Scotland, of the Heraldry Society of New Zealand and of the Heraldry Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. She is an Academician of the Academie Internationale d'Heraldique and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of teh Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, honours in recognition of her heraldic expertise. She has published many articles and lectures regularly on heraldic and genealogical subjects.

She is President of the Bureau Permanent des Congres Genealogique and Heraldique and serves on the Board of the Academie Internationale d'Heraldique, the International Commisson on Orders of Chivalry, and the Confederation of Genealogy and Heraldry.

In addition to her heraldic interests she is Vice Chair of the Scottish Council on Archives, a Trustee of the Black Watch Museum and Dean of the 900 year old Merchant Guildry of Stirling.

Orders and Decorations
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)2012
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)1990
Officer of the Order of St. John1999
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal1977
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal2002
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal2012

Arms
Coat of arms of Elizabeth Roads
Notes
Elizabeth Roads bears Arms appropriate to her maiden name of Bruce. Sometimes bore her arms on a shield of oval form.[3]
Crest
From a Wreath of Or and Gules a dexter Arm in armour embowed the hand proper grasping a broken Sceptre Gules.
Escutcheon
Or a Saltire Gules on a Chief Gules a Pale Argent charged of a Cross engrailed Sable.
Motto
Sic Fuimus ("So we were")
Previous versions
Formerly bore the arms with a bordure or.

See also

References
  1. Scottish field, 134, Holmes McDougall, 1988, p. 17, Mrs. Elizabeth Roads, Lyon Clerk at the Court of the Lord Lyon
  2. https://twitter.com/LyonCourt/status/1014943012445675520
  3. "Snawdoun". www.courtofthelordlyon.scot. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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