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The
Armiger is a
Knight of the
Equestrian Order
of Saint Gregory
the Great
(Vatican State
Knighthood,
2006); Order
‘Pro Merito
Melitensi’
(Order of Malta
-Silver Medal,
2012); The
Military &
Hospitaller
Order of Saint
Lazarus of
Jerusalem
(Officer, 2015),
Heraldic Artist,
Genealogist,
Associate Fellow
of the
International
Association of
Amateur Heralds.
Founder &
Chairman of the
"Anderson
Association,"
Highland Piper
(1st Battalion
Scots Guards,
2013-15)
On
2nd April 1526,
James Anderson
was appointed
Carrick
Pursuivant of
Arms at the
Court of the
Lord Lyon. This
James is claimed
as ancestor of
the Andersons of
Arbrake and
Kinneddar. In
the 1566 Workman
MS of Lord Lyon
Forman, arms are
recorded for
Anderson of that
Ilk (Argent a
saltire
engrailed Gules
between a mullet
in chief and
three crescents
in the flanks
and base Sable)
and it is
claimed that
James Anderson
was recognised
as representer
of the race and
clan.
The
earliest
sculptured arms
used by the
armiger’s
Anderson
forebears
(Argent a
saltire between
three stars in
chief &
flanks and a
crescent in base
Gules) was used
by the Andersons
of Bruntstane
and Dumbennan by
Huntly from
around 1600.
This formed the
pattern of many
coats used by
Andersons in the
north-east of
Scotland.
Through
Gordon
intermarriages,
descendants of
this family
adapted their
arms, in
allusion to
these
connections
(Argent a
saltire
engrailed
between two
stars in chief
and base Gules
and two boars
heads erased in
the flanks
Azure), which
were recorded in
Lyon Register in
1673 - Vol. 1,
fol. 239 for
Anderson of
Ardbrake &
Westerton, co.
Banff. The
current
representer now
lives in South
Africa.
The
Andersons of
Kinneddar, co.
Elgin (settled
there in 1691),
were a junior
scion of the
Ardbrake line
and later
recorded a
differenced
version of these
arms (Argent a
saltire Azure
between three
molets in chief
& flanks and
a crescent in
base Sable) at
the Lyon Court
in 1992 - Vol.
73, fol.
78.archives.
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