Elizabeth Roads was born in 1951 and educated at Lansdowne House in Edinburgh, the Cambridgeshire College of Technology, the Study Centre for Fine Art in London, and Edinburgh Napier University.
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10 Facts About Elizabeth Roads
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Elizabeth Roads married Christopher Roads in 1983, and they have two sons Timothy and William and a daughter Emily.
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Elizabeth Roads was appointed Linlithgow Pursuivant in 1987, becoming the first female Officer of arms in the world.
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Elizabeth Roads was appointed Secretary of the Order of the Thistle in 2014, having been Deputy Secretary since 2008.
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Elizabeth Roads was Chairman of that Society in the late 1990s and is a Fellow of the Heraldry Society of Scotland, of the Heraldry Society of New Zealand and of the Heraldry Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada.
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Elizabeth Roads is an Academician of the Academie Internationale d'Heraldique and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, honours in recognition of her heraldic expertise.
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Elizabeth Roads has published many articles and lectures regularly on heraldic and genealogical subjects.
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Elizabeth Roads is current President of the Academie Internationale d'Heraldique and a former President of the Bureau Permanent des Congres Genealogique and Heraldique.
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Elizabeth Roads serves on the Board of the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry and the Confederation of Genealogy and Heraldry.
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