By Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 6 November 2023, His Majesty The King has been pleased to appoint Phillip Alan Bone to the Office of Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, vacant by the promotion of Adam Simon Tuck, now Lancaster Herald of Arms. The appointment has been gazetted here.
Phillip Bone was born in Bedfordshire and educated at Bedford School and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he read Literae Humaniores and subsequently received the degrees of Master of Studies and Doctor of Philosophy in Classical Languages and Literature. He subsequently lectured in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Nottingham.
By Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 2 November 2023, His Majesty The King has been pleased to appoint Adam Simon Tuck to the Office of Lancaster Herald of Arms, vacant by the promotion in 2021 of Robert John Baptist Noel, now Norroy and Ulster King of Arms. The appointment has been gazetted here.
