By Letters Patent dated 26 July 2013, Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to appoint John Michael Allen-Petrie to the office of Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, vacant since the promotion of David Vines White to the office of Somerset Herald in 2004.
John Petrie (right) was born in Canada in 1980 and educated at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, where he received a master's degree in sciences politiques, and at the London School of Economics, where he received the degree of M.Sc. Before coming to the College of Arms and successfully completing a probationary period in the practice of William Hunt, Windsor Herald of Arms, he worked at the Bank of England in the division regulating the circulation and issuance of bank notes in the United Kingdom.
