Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod

The Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod is the Gentleman Usher to the Order of the Thistle, established in 1687.

Office Holders from 1714

• 1714–1761 Sir Thomas Brand
• 1762–1787 Robert Quarme
• 1787–1800 Matthew Robert Arnott
• 1800–1842 Robert Quarme the younger
• 1842–1884 Frederic Peel Round
• 1884–1895: Sir Duncan Alexander Dundas Campbell, 3rd Baronet (1856–1926)
• 1895–1917: Alan Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (1864–1935)
• 1917–1939: Brig.-Gen. Sir Robert Gordon Gilmour, 1st Baronet (1857–1939)
• bef. 1944–1953: Col Sir North Victor Cecil Dalrymple-Hamilton (1883–1953)
• 1953–1958: Lieut-Col Sir Edward Daymonde Stevenson (1895–1958) ^[1]
• 1959–1979: Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet, VC, OBE
• 1979–1997: Rear Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith
• 1997–present: Rear Admiral Christopher Hope Layman

References

1. ^ hamilton thistle&exact=&atleast=&similar= London Gazette

• Hallen, Arthur Washington Cornelius; Stevenson, John Horne (April 1897). "The Usher of the Green Rod". The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries XI (44): 170. http://books.google.com/?id=hmDcuAnRpiwC. Retrieved 2007-07-01.