Elizabeth Roads

Elizabeth Ann Roads, LVO, CStJ (née Bruce; born 1951) is a former Scottish herald, an office from which she retired in 2021; in July 2018 she retired as Lyon Clerk at the Court of the Lord Lyon[1] Elizabeth Roads is the daughter of Lt Col. James Bruce MC and his wife Mary Hope Sinclair.

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, and retired from being an officer of arms in 2021.She briefly held the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms ad interim at the end of 2017 during the absence of the Lord Lyon.

She is an Academician and President of the Academie Internationale d'Heraldique and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, honours in recognition of her heraldic expertise.

In addition to her heraldic interests she is Lord Dean of the Incorporation of the Merchant Guildry of Stirling founded in 1119, a Trustee of the Black Watch Regimental Trust, Chairman of the Royal Celtic Society, Heraldic Adviser to the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, an independent Patron of Cowane's Hospital Trust the oldest charity in Scotland, a Chapter Member of the Priory of Scotland of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, and a Lay Representative and Lay member of Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church.