James van Someren PEILL

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James van Someren Peill has been appointed Bluemantle Pursuivant. He m 2008 Saskia Rose b 1985 d of Hon Philip Richard LAWSON JOHNSTON b 1950, son of the 2nd Baron Luke, and (m 1977) Saskia Moyne ANDREWS.  They have 4 daughters.

Bluemantle Pursuivant - College of Arms (college-of-arms.gov.uk)

"By Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 16 April 2024, His Majesty The King has been pleased to appoint James van Someren Peill to the office of Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, vacant by the recent promotion of Mark John Rosborough Scott, now Somerset Herald of Arms.

James Peill, F.S.A. was brought up in the Welsh Marches and read History of Art at Edinburgh University. He was formerly the Curator of the Goodwood Collection. Prior to that, he was a Director of Christie's where he was a specialist in the Furniture Department and an auctioneer. He is the co-author, with the late Knight of Glin, of Irish Furniture (Yale University Press, 2007) and The Irish Country House (Vendome, 2010), and the author of The English Country House (Vendome, 2013). His most recent book is Glorious Goodwood, a Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate (Constable, 2019)."

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He has now been promoted to Richmond Herald

London Gazette 2 June 2026:

Crown Office

THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 28 May 2026, to grant unto James van Someren Peill, Esquire, the Office of Richmond Herald, vacant by the promotion of Clive Edwin Alexander Cheesman, Esquire.