Robert Noel

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Robert John Baptist Noel MA, MPhil (b. 15 October 1962) is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

Robert Noel is the son of Hon. Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel, of Westington Mill, Chipping Campden, and grandson of the fourth Earl of Gainsborough. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Exeter College, Oxford and St Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Noel worked as a shipbroker, a library assistant in the College of Arms, and an auctioneer for Christie's of London, before being appointed Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in October 1992. He was promoted to Lancaster Herald of Arms in Ordinary in September 1999.

Noel has been a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass since 1991.

1 Coat of Arms
2 See also
3 Reference
4 External links

[edit] Coat of Arms

Robert Noel's armorial bearings are blazoned

(Arms) Or fretty gules a canton ermine
(Crest) A buck at gaze argent attired or

His motto is Tout bien ou rien

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[edit] Reference

Heralds of Today: A Biographical List of the Officers of the College of Arms, London, 1987-2001, Hubert Chesshyre and Adrian Ailes, (Illuminata, London 2001) ISBN 0-9537845-1-7

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Honorary Titles
Preceded by Terence McCarthy	Bluemantle Pursuivant 1992–1999	Succeeded by Peter O'Donoghue
Preceded by Peter Gwynn-Jones	Lancaster Herald 1999–present	Succeeded by (incumbent)