Slains Pursuivant

Slains Pursuivant of Arms is a private officer of arms appointed by the Chief of the Name and Arms of Hay – presently the Earl of Erroll, Lord High Constable of Scotland.

It is believed that the Hay family had an officer of arms since the time that the office of Lord High Constable was forfeited by the Comyn family and passed to the Hays.

After World War II, Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk revived the practice of appointing private officers.

Slains Pursuivant is senior among these officers because his master ranks before all peers of Scotland.

The present holder of the office is John Malden.

Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick as Slains Pursuivant at the XXVIIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences . He is shown wearing the tabard of the Earl of Erroll.