Fellows and Honorary Fellows of The Heraldry Society
The Fellowship is the highest honour which the Society can bestow, and is a recognition of outstanding achievement in connection with the art and science of heraldry.
The neck insignia worn by an Honorary Fellow of the Society. A Fellow wears the same but with the addition of a yellow stripe on the ribbon
The Faculty of Fellows, in admitting a new member, takes into particular consideration published work and distinction in the field of education. In accordance with the Society’s articles, only a member of the Society can be made a Fellow. The number of Fellows is limited to 50.
The Honorary Fellowship can be awarded both to members and to non members. These individuals will have, over a long period of time, provided outstanding service to the Society and/or to heraldry in general.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FELLOWS with dates of election
| Dr Adrian P Ailes, FSA | 1st April 1992, prev Hon Fellow 1991 |
| Mr Steven Ashley FSA | 9th May 2022 |
| Prof D’Arcy J D Boulton FSA | 15th February 2021 |
| Dr Clive E A Cheesman, FSA, Richmond Herald | 15th February 2021 |
| Dr Paul A Fox, FSA | 4th September 2017 |
| Mr Stephen Friar | 30th March 1994 |
| Dr Andrew Gray | 21st January 2015 |
| Mr David Hopkinson | 24th July 2017 |
| Mr Anthony Ll Jones | 22nd November 1999 |
| Mr Keith Lovell, also Vice-President | 10th February 2004, prev Hon Fellow 1992 |
| Mr R John Malden, Retd Unicorn Pursuivant | 24th July 2017 |
| Mr Baz Manning | 21st May 2023 |
| Mr Robert Meeds | 24th July 2017 |
| Dr Kenneth Mourin | 10th February 2004 |
| Mr M Peter D O’Donoghue, FSA, York Herald | 15th February 2021 |
| Mrs Elizabeth Roads, MVO, FSA, Snawdoun Herald | 26th March 2018 |
| Dr Michael P Siddons, FSA, Retd Wales Herald Extraordinary | 26th June 1996 |
| Mr Stephen Slater | 9th February 2009 |
| Mr Roland Symons | 24th July 2017 |
| Mr John Titterton, FSA | 8th January 2018 |
| Sir Thomas Woodcock, KCVO, FSA, Garter King of Arms 2010-2021 | 26th June 1996 |
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HONORARY FELLOWS with dates of election
| Mr Clive Alexander | 9th May 2022 |
| Robert Balchin, Lord Lingfield | 17th June 1987 |
| Mr Graham F Beck | 11th June 1980 |
| Mr S Patrick Cracroft-Brennan | 9th March 1988 |
| Mr Martin J Davies | 7th May 1997 |
| Mrs Ann Esslemont | 2003 |
| Mrs Arline Fisher | 9th May 2022 |
| Mr Michael Fowle CBE FCA | 9th May 2022 |
| Mr D Peter F Giles | 7th May 1997 |
| Dr Malcolm Golin | 11th February 2003 |
| Mr Robert S Harrison | 18th September 1996 |
| Mr David S Hopkinson | 12th February 2000 |
| Mr David C Hubber, also Vice President | 2nd May 2001 |
| Mr Graeme Jebb | 16th September 1992 |
| Dr Bernard Juby | 6th June 1989 |
| Mr Darrel E Kennedy, FRHSC, Assiniboine Herald | 7th May 1997 |
| Mr Colin Lee | 2nd February 2000 |
| Mr J David Lee | 7th May 1997 |
| Mr Henry S Lynn Jr | 7th May 1997 |
| Mr Kenneth A Porter | 3rd February 1999 |
| Mr Adrian de Redman | 11th February 2003 |
| Major J C Riley | |
| Miss Mary Rose Rogers | 9th April 1986 |
| Mr John Tunesi of Liongam | 5th September 2016 |
| Mrs Jane Tunesi of Liongam | 5th September 2016 |
| Mr Robert Watt, Chief Herald of Canada 1988–2007 and President of the AIH | 7th May 1997 |
| Mr David V White, Garter King of Arms, also Vice President | 12th May 2014 |
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DECEASED FELLOWS with year of election.
For further information click an Obit link; this will take you to this website’s Obituaries section unless it is in brackets, when you will be directed elsewhere.
| Name | Elected | Died | Obituary |
| Ms Drusilla Armitage | 2000 | 2019 | |
| Mr Hugh Murray Baillie, MBE, FSA | 1972 | 1982 | |
| Lt Cdr John Bedells, Howard Pursuivant Extraordinary | 1992 (Hon FHS 1970) | 2001 | |
| Mr Peter Begent, FSA | 1981 | 2001 | [Obit] |
| Hon Sir George Bellew, KCVO, FSA, Retd Garter King of Arms | Founder Fellow | 1993 | [Obit] |
| Revd Frank M Best | 1978 | 1996 | |
| Dr Harold Bowditch, MD, FSA | 1963 | 1964 | |
| Prof Gerard J Brault, FSA | 1977 | 2020 | [Obit] |
| Mr Rowland Bretton | 1963 | 1973 | [Obit] |
| Mr Ralph Brocklebank | 2009 | 2022 | |
| Mr John P B Brooke-Little, CVO, FSA, Retd Clarenceux King of Arms | Founder Fellow | 2006 | Obit |
| Mr Robert Brown | 2018 | 2019 | |
| Mr Colin Campbell | 1981 | 1998 | Obit |
| Mr D Hubert B Chesshyre, FSA, Retd Clarenceux King of Arms | 1990 | 2020 | |
| Sir Alexander Colin Cole, KCVO, FSA, Retd Garter King of Arms | 1960 | 2001 | Obit |
| Major Thomas Reginald Davies | 1980 | 1980 | |
| Mr John Ferguson | 2001 | 2021 | |
| Mr Peter Field | 1997, prev Hon Fellow 1989 | 2018 | |
| Mr Ronald Fiske | 2011 | 2018 | |
| Mr John Charles Grossmith George, Kintyre Pursuivant | 1983 | 2012 | Obit |
| H.E. Archbishop Bruno Bernard Heim | 1981 | 2003 | Obit |
| Mr Cedric Jennings Holyoake, FSA | 1977 | 1996 | Obit |
| Mr David Howard | 1999 | 2005 | |
| Mr Cecil Raymond Humphery-Smith, OBE, AIH, FSA | 1960 | 2021 | [Obit] |
| Mr Charles Henry Hunter Blair, FSA | 1960 | 1962 | Obit |
| Major J F Huxford | 1996 | 1997 | |
| Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, GCVO | Founder Fellow | 1971 | [Obit] |
| Mr Solomon C Kaines-Smith, MBE, FSA | Founder Fellow | 1958 | |
| Mr Hugh Stanford London, FSA | Founder Fellow | 1959 | Obit |
| Dr Jiří Louda | 2014 | 2015 | Obit |
| Mr Michael Maclagan, CVO, FSA, Retd Richmond Herald | 1972 | 2003 | [Obit] |
| Cdr Arthur W B Messenger, FSA | Founder Fellow | 1970 | Obit |
| Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, CVO, FSA | 1981 | 1985 | [Obit] |
| Mr Harold B Pereira | 1967 | 1980 | |
| Mr Gilbert Winter Potter | 1972, prev Hon Fellow 1959 | 1983 | |
| Mr Roger F Pye | 1980 | 2001 | |
| Mr L Edward Rothwell | 1972 | 2020 | |
| Mr Johan Jacobus Schell-Lannoy | 1972 | 1976 | |
| Mr C Wilfrid Scott-Giles, FSA | Founder Fellow | 1982 | [Obit] |
| Mr George Drewry Squibb, LVO, FSA, Norfolk Herald Extraordinary | 1960 | 1994 | Obit |
| Mr Peter Gilbert Summers, FSA | 1985 | 1994 | Obit |
| Mr E N Taylor | 2000 | 2013 | |
| Dr Harold Ellis Tomlinson | 1961 | 1996 | Obit |
| Sir Anthony Wagner, KCVO, FSA, Retd Garter King of Arms | Founder Fellow | 1995 | Obit |
| Mr Anthony Wood FSHA | 1979 | 2022 |
HISTORICAL LIST OF HONORARY FELLOWS with year of election. See also Obituaries.
Most of those listed are known to be deceased, but with some we have simply lost contact. Where no date of death is given, we should welcome any current information. Contact roll@theheraldrysociety.com.
| Name | Elected | Died | Obituary |
| Revd Canon Dr John Andrew OBE | 1997 | 2014 | |
| Lt Cdr Alan Beddoe OBE | 1968 | 1975 | |
| Mr George M Beley | 1968 | 1976 | |
| Mrs L M Biermann | 1976 | ||
| Mr Thomas Henry Brown | 1979 | 1993 | |
| Mr David Butterworth | 2000 | 2011 | |
| Ms Ann Buttimore | 1980 | ||
| Col I C Byrne | 1959 | ||
| Mr Frank Cadogan-Cowper | 1977 | 1994 | |
| Mr Ian Lachlan Campbell, FRHSC | 1997 | 2007 | |
| Mr John Campbell-Kease | 2001 | 2015 | |
| Mrs Patricia Campbell-Kease | 2001 | ||
| Col H A Cape, DSO | 1959 | 1963 | |
| Mr J I Dent | 2006 | ||
| Miss Constance Egan aka Mrs Raymond Brooke-Little | Founder HonFHS | 1975 | Obit |
| Mr Peter Esslemont | 1991 | 2012 | |
| Mr Alan Fennely | 2015 | 2020 | |
| Mr Peter Field | 1989 | 2018 | |
| Prof Robert Cecil Gale | 1961 | 1975 | |
| Mrs Muriel Gardner (née Heath) | 1961 | 2017 | Obit |
| Mrs Margaret George | 2015 | ||
| Ms Grace Grant | 1989 | 2004 | |
| Mr Albert Hamilton Hamilton-Hopkins | 1986 | ||
| Dr William Owen Hassall | 1968 | 1994 | |
| Mr Noel Paul Walter Hatcher | 1964 | 1995 | |
| Dr Anthony Hobson | 1970 | 2000 | |
| Mr Kay Holmes | 1987 | 2018 | |
| Mr Michael R W C Holmes | 1995 | ||
| Mr Frederick Humphery-Smith, MBE | 1967 | 1979 | |
| Mr T B Jenkins | Founder HonFHS | 1970 | |
| Mr Melvyn Jeremiah, CB, also Vice President | 2014 | 2023 | |
| Mr F G F Keyes | 1968 | ||
| Mrs Ann Kirby | 1988 | 1996 | |
| Mr James Lewis Kirby jr (Kirby Fund) | 1988 | 2015 | |
| Mr David Krause | 1988 | 2020 | |
| Mr Charles Low | 1968 | 1988 | |
| Sir Christopher Lynch-Robinson Bt | Founder HonFHS | 1958 | |
| Mr James McCready | 1997 | 2012 | |
| Mr H Norman Manwaring | 1966 | 1985 | |
| Mr Robert W Massey | 1963 | ||
| Mr Charles Mellor | 1966 | 1994 | |
| Mrs Marian Miles | 1997 | 2006 | Obit |
| Mr J F de Montigny | 1959 | ||
| Mr Terence Owens | 1977 | 1995 | |
| Maj Gen Sir Edward Phillips KBE CB DSO MC | 1968 | 1973 | |
| Mr Leslie G Pierson | 1979 | 2003 | |
| Mr Keith Baddely Poole | 1974 | 1998 | |
| Cdr James Risk CVO FSA | 1997 | ||
| Revd Everhard James Rowe | 1970 | 1994 | |
| Mr Frank W.Smith | 1962 | 2004 | |
| Count Thierry de Limburg Stirum | 1959 | 1968 | |
| Lt Col A M Stoyles | 1968 | 1992 | |
| Mrs Martine Sweeney (née Hodson) | 1980 | ||
| Mrs Nan Taylor | 1994 | 2011 | |
| Maj Phillips MacKay Till | 1968 | ||
| Aubrey J Toppin, CVO, FSA, York Herald, then Maltravers Herald Extraordinary | Founder HonFHS | 1969 | |
| Mr Adrian G L Turner, LVO | Founder HonFHS | 2010 | |
| Mr Charles E Town | 1978 | 1991 | |
| Canon Derrick Walkden | 2003 | 2017 | |
| Col A Weaver-Hazleton | 1968 | ||
| Sir Gerald Wollaston, KCB, KCVO, Norroy & Ulster King of Arms | Founder HonFHS | 1957 | |
| Mr John Howard Wright | 1977 | 1998 | |
| Mr A J Young | 1975 | 1999 |