# Rouge Croix Pursuivant

Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms. He is said to be the oldest of the four pursuivants in ordinary. The office is named after St George's Cross which has been a symbol of England since the time of the Crusades.
The current Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is Thomas Johnston. He took part in the Royal Procession at the 2023 Coronation.

## Holders of the office

| Name | Date of appointment |
| Nicholas Serby | (Henry IV) |
| Richard Boys | (Henry IV) |
| Giles Waster | (Henry V) |
| Roger Legh or Lygh | (Henry V) |
| John Writhe | (Henry V) |
| John Mowbray | (1422) |
| Robert Ashwell | (Henry VI) |
| James Billett | (Henry VI) |
| John Mallett | (Henry VI) |
| Robert Dunham | (Henry VI) |
| Richard Ashwell | (Henry VI) |
| John Ballard | (Henry VI) |
| Thomas Holme | (Henry VI) |
| John More | (Henry VI) |
| William Carlill | (Edward IV) |
| Roger Stamford | (Edward IV) |
| Richard Slacke | (Edward IV) |
| John Water or Walter | (Edward IV) |
| Thomas Benolt | (Edward IV) |
| Thomas Waters | (Edward IV) |
| Robert Browne | (Edward IV) |
| William Jenyns | (Edward IV) |
| Thomas Tonge | (Edward IV) |
| George Berry | (1484) |
| Richard Greenwood | (1485) |
| (name unknown) | (1492) |
| William Wriothesley | 1505–1509 |
| Thomas Hawley | 1509–1515 |
| Laurence de la Gatta | 1515–1520 |
| Thomas Wall | 1521–1521 |
| Charles Wriothesley | 1524–1535 |
| Bartholomew Butler | 1535–1538 |
| Thomas Stevenson | 1538–1540 |
| Gilbert Dethick | 1540–1541 |
| Justinian Barker | 1541–1543 |
| William Flower | 1543–1546 |
| Lawrence Dalton | 1546–1547 |
| Simon Newbald | (Edward VI) |
| Nicholas Tubman | 1551–1553 |
| Henry Cotgrove | 1553–1566 |
| William Dethick | 1566–1569 |
| Thomas Dawes | 1569–1580 |
| Ralph Brooke | 1580–1592 |
| Thomas Knight | 1592–1604 |
| William Wyrley | 1604–1619 |
| John Guillim | 1619–1621 |
| Augustine Vincent | 1621–1624 |
| John Bradshaw | 1624–1626 |
| George Owen | 1626–1637 |
| Edward Walker | 1637–1638 |
| Henry Lilly | 1638–1639 |
| William Dugdale | 1639–? |
| Robert Browne | (intruded) |
| Everard Exton | (intruded) |
| Henry Dethick | 1660–1677 |
| Henry Ball | 1677–1686 |
| Charles Mawson | 1686–1688 |
| Samuel Stebbing | 1688–? |
| Peter Le Neve | (Anne) |
| John Bound | (Anne) |
| Richard Graham | 1722–1725 |
| Richard Pomfret | 1725–1751 |
| Alexander Cozens | 1751–1752 |
| Henry Hastings | 1752?–1773 |
| John Charles Brooke | 1773–1777 |
| Francis Townsend | 1777–1784 |
| John Atkinson | 1784–1794 |
| Joseph Hawker | 1794–1803 |
| William Radclyffe | 1803–1823 |
| Robert Laurie | 1823–1839 |
| William Courthope | 1839–1854 |
| James Planché | 1854–1866 |
| John de Havilland | 1866–1872 |
| Stephen Tucker | 1872–1880 |
| Sir Henry Farnham Burke | 1880–1887 |
| George William Marshall | 1887–1904 |
| Sir Arthur Cochrane | 1904–1915 |
| Archibald Russell | 1915–1922 |
| Henry Robert Charles Martin | 1922–1928 |
| Lord Walter Kerr | 1928–1941 |
| John Walker | 1947–1954 |
| Sir Walter Verco | 1954–1960 |
| Rodney Dennys | 1961–1967 |
| (David) Hubert Chesshyre | 1970–1978 |
| Sir Thomas Woodcock | 1978–1982 |
| Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet | 1983–1993 |
| David White | 1995–2004 |
| John Allen-Petrie | 2013–2019 |
| Thomas Andrew Johnston, Esq. | 2023–present |