Roger Lindsay
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Roger Alexander Lindsay of Craighall, Baron of Craighall, C.St.J., FSA Scot is a Canadian accountant who is also Rouge Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the Canadian Heraldic Authority.
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Lindsay is also the chief of protocol of the Priory of Canada of Order of St John and is a trustee, director, and secretary of the W Garfield Weston Foundation. He has served as both a national trustee and as convener of the Board of Governors of Knox College, in the University of Toronto. He holds the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and the long-time service medal of Order of St John. He was created Rouge Herald Extraordinary on 27 October 2006.[1]
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Lindsay was granted a coat of arms by Lord Lyon King of Arms. The shield is blazoned Gules a Fess chequy Azure and Argent between a Lion passant guardant and a Pot of three growing Lilies Argent. He was also granted the crest of the Head Neck and Wings of a Swan Or charged with a Maple Leaf Gules and the motto "Festina Lente".[2] This translates to "hasten slowly."
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- ^ Press Release from the Office of the Governor General of Canada
- ^ Public Register of All Arms and Bearings of Scotland, Volume 71, Folio 32
