Lord Lyon King of Arms

The Right Honourable the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry in that country, issuing new grants of arms, and serving as the judge of the Court of the Lord Lyon, the oldest heraldic court in the world that is still in daily operation.
The historic title of the post was the High Sennachie, and he was given the title of Lord Lyon from the lion in the coat of arms of Scotland.
The post was in the early nineteenth century held by an important nobleman, the Earl of Kinnoull, whose functions were in practice carried out by the Lyon-Depute. The practice of appointing Lyon-Deputes, however, ceased in 1866.
==See also==
*King of Arms
*Garter Principal King of Arms
*Clarenceux King of Arms
*Norroy and Ulster King of Arms
== References ==
== Statutory acts ==
* Lyon King of Arms Act 1592
* Lyon King of Arms Act 1669
* Lyon King of Arms Act 1672
* Lyon King of Arms Act 1867
* The Superannuation (Lyon King of Arms and Lyon Clerk) Order 1979
== External links ==
* 
* Society of Scottish armigers
* The Heraldry Society of Scotland's pages on the Lord Lyon
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