Somerset Herald

Template:Short description Template:Infobox heraldry Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. In the year 1448 Somerset Herald is known to have served Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, but by the time of the coronation of Henry VII in 1485 his successor appears to have been raised to the rank of a royal officer, when he was the only herald to receive coronation liveries.

By 1525 Somerset was again in private service, on the staff of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, although he was appointed by the King and shared the heralds' fees as a herald extraordinary. On the death of that nobleman in 1536 the herald returned to the service of the crown, and all later officers called Somerset have been members of the royal household as heralds in ordinary. The badge of office is A Portcullis Or Royally Crowned. This is a version of the Beaufort badge.

The current Somerset Herald of Arms is Mark Scott.

Holders of the office

Arms	Name	Date of appointment	Ref
Royal Herald of Henry VII
File:Arms of John Yonge.svg	John YongeTemplate:Efn	(1493)
File:Arms of John Ponde.svg	John Pounde	(1511)
Herald to Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
File:Arms of John Ponde.svg	John Pounde	(1511)
File:Arms of William Hastings.svg	William Hastings	(1528)
File:Arms of Thomas Treheron.svg	Thomas Traheyron or Trahern	(1536)
Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary
File:Arms of Thomas Treheron.svg	Thomas Traheyron or TrahernTemplate:Efn	1536–1542
File:Arms of Richard Ratcliffe.svg	Richard Radcliffe	1543–1545
File:Arms of William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms.svg	William Harvey	1545–1551
File:Arms of Edmund Atkinson.svg	Edmond Atkinson	1551–1571
File:Arms of Robert Glover.svg	Robert Glover	1571–1588
File:Arms of William Segar.svg	William Segar	1589–1597
File:Arms of Robert Treswell.svg	Robert Treswell	1597–1624
	John Philipot	1624–1645
File:Arms of George Owen of Henllys.svg	George Owen	1657–1658
File:Arms of Sir Edward Bysshe.svg	Henry Bysshe	1658–1660
File:Arms of Sir Henry St George.svg	Sir Thomas St George	1660–1680
File:Arms of Francis Burghill.svg	Francis Burghill	1680–1700
File:Arms of Samuel Stebbing.svg	Samuel Stebbing	1700–1720
File:Arms of John Warburton.svg	John Warburton	1720–1759
File:Arms of Ralph Bigland.svg	Ralph Bigland	1759–1773
File:Arms of Henry Hastings.svg	Henry Hastings	1773–1777
File:Arms of John Charles Brooke.svg	John Charles Brooke	1777–1794
File:Arms of Edmund Atkinson.svg	John Atkinson	1794–1813
File:Arms of James Cathrow.svg	James Cathrow	1813–1854
File:Arms of William Courthope.svg	William Courthope	1854–1866
File:Arms of James Robinson Planché.svg	James Planché	1866–1872
File:Arms of Stephen Isaacson Tucker.svg	Stephen Tucker	1880–1887
File:Arms of Sir John Bernard Burke.svg	Sir Henry Farnham Burke	1887–1911
File:Arms of Everard Green.svg	Everard Green	1911–1926
File:Arms of Sir George Bellew.svg	Sir George Bellew	1926–1950
File:Arms of Michael Roger Trappes-Lomax.svg	Michael Trappes-Lomax	1951–1967
File:Arms of Rodney Onslow Dennys.svg	Rodney Dennys	1967–1982
File:Arms of Thomas Woodcock.svg	Thomas Woodcock	1982–1997
File:Arms of David Vines White.svg	David Vines White	2004–2021
	Mark John Rosborough Scott	2024–present

See also

• Heraldry
• Officer of Arms

References

Notes Template:Notelist Citations

Bibliography

• 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)

External links

• The College of Arms
• CUHGS Officer of Arms Index