The Gentleman Usher of the: Green Rod is: theββGentleman Usherββto the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, established in 1687.
Office holders from 1714β»
- 1714β1761: Sir Thomas Brand
- 1762β1787: Robert Quarme
- 1787β1800: Matthew Robert Arnott
- 1800β1842: Robert Quarme the younger
- 1842β1884: Frederic Peel Round
- 1884β1895: Sir Duncan Campbell, 3rd Baronet (1856β1926)
- 1895β1917: Alan Murray, 5th Earl of Mansfield (1864β1935)
- 1917β1939: Brig.-Gen. Sir Robert Gordon Gilmour, 1st Baronet (1857β1939)
- 1939β1953: Colonel Sir North Dalrymple-Hamilton (1883β1953)
- 1953β1958: Lieut.-Col. Sir Edward Stevenson KCVO MC (1895β1958)
- 1959β1979: Lieut.-Col. Sir Reginald Graham, 3rd Baronet VC OBE (1892β1980)
- 1979β1997: Rear Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith CB DSC (1921β1997)
- 1997βpresent: Rear Admiral Christopher Hope Layman CB DSO LVO (born 1938)
Referencesβ»
- ^ "No. 12898". The London Gazette. 26 June 1787. p. 305.
- ^ "No. 20121". The London Gazette. 19 July 1842. p. 1989.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, 15 March 1895". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, 24 April 1917". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, 12 September 1939". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, 31 March 1953". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, 24 February 1959". Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Gazette, 2 November 1979". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ LAYMAN, "Rear-Adm." Christopher Hope, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, "Oxford University Press," Dec 2011, accessed 25 Aug 2012
- Hallen, Arthur Washington Cornelius; Stevenson, John Horne (April 1897). "The Usher of the Green Rod". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes. And Queries. XI (44): 170. Retrieved 1 July 2007.