NS Vol 7 No 1-2 (December 2001)

Ex libris

Elizabeth Ann Roads, MVO

GORDON MACPHERSON designed this bookplate. The arms are:

 

Or on a shield of oval form Or, a saltire Gules, on a chief of the Last a pale Argent charged of a cross engrailed Sable, a bordure of the First. Above the Shield on a Wreath of the Liveries, Gules and Or, is set for Crest a dexter arm in armour embowed the hand proper grasping a broken sceptre Gules and in an Escrol over the same this motto “SIC FUIMUS”.

 

Mrs 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 Edinburgh, Cambridgeshire College of Technology and the Study Centre for Fine Art in London. After some years working for Christies in London she joined the Court of the Lord Lyon in 1975 and was made Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records in 1986. Mrs Roads was Linlithgow Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary in 1987, a temporary appointment, when she represented the Lord Lyon in Canada in the discussions that led to the establishment of a Canadian Heraldic Authority. She was appointed Carrick Pursuivant of Arms in 1992. She has published many articles on heraldic and genealogical subjects. She was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1990. She married Christopher Roads in 1983 and they have two sons and one daughter.

Elizabeth Ann Roads is the first woman to be appointed a Royal Officer of Arms. Thanks to the Heraldry Society of Scotland for the biographical information. The Heraldry Society of SA offers her their best wishes for her future career in the Court of the Lord Lyon.

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