1. Hubert Chesshyre was Clarenceux King of Arms, the second most senior member of the College of Arms and the second most senior heraldic position in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and several other Commonwealth countries.
Hubert Chesshyre undertook heraldic and genealogical work for high-profile clients such as the former prime minister Sir Edward Heath.
Hubert Chesshyre wrote seven books, including the official history of the Order of the Garter.
Hubert Chesshyre was found to be unfit to plead, and his trial was therefore a trial of the facts.
Hubert Chesshyre was educated at St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford, where he was a contemporary of John Hurt.
Hubert Chesshyre went on to The King's School, Canterbury.
Hubert Chesshyre studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, and proceeding by convention to Master of Arts in 1966.
Hubert Chesshyre then studied at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a Diploma in Education in 1967.
Hubert Chesshyre served in the Honourable Artillery Company from 1964 until 1965.
Hubert Chesshyre was a Green Staff Officer at the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969.
Hubert Chesshyre was Registrar of the College of Arms from 1992 until 2000 and was the Founder Secretary of the College of Arms Uniform Fund in 1980, serving in that capacity until 1999.
Hubert Chesshyre was Secretary of the Order of the Garter from 1988 until 2003, having been trained for the role by his predecessor Walter Verco and by Verco's predecessor-but-one, Anthony Wagner.
Hubert Chesshyre was Honorary Genealogist of The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter.
Hubert Chesshyre served for twenty-three years as Honorary Genealogist to the Royal Victorian Order, again, succeeding Walter Verco.
Hubert Chesshyre was therefore briefly one of just two members of the Order of St Patrick, the other member being Queen Elizabeth II, who remained Sovereign of the Order.
Hubert Chesshyre retired from the College of Arms on 31 August 2010.
In 1973, Hubert Chesshyre completed a report into the missing collar on the tomb of Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.
Hubert Chesshyre was a member of the Abbey's Architectural Advisory Panel from 1985 until 1998, and then of its Fabric Commission from 1998 until 2003.
Hubert Chesshyre was heraldic advisor for the west window of the Henry VII Lady Chapel, donated by John Templeton and devised by Donald Buttress, which The Queen unveiled in 1995.
Hubert Chesshyre served as heraldic advisor to the committee that organised the re-enactment of the funeral of Arthur, Prince of Wales in Worcester on 3 May 2002.
Hubert Chesshyre worked as a freelance lecturer in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Hubert Chesshyre has been credited with establishing the probable origins of the common error of using the term crest to refer to the whole achievement.
Hubert Chesshyre explains that in the 18th century it was common for smaller items, such as spoons and forks, to be engraved with the crest alone, while the full achievement was reserved for larger items such as salvers.
Hubert Chesshyre was a choral clerk of Trinity College, Cambridge during his time as an undergraduate at the college.
From 1979 until 1993 Hubert Chesshyre was a member of The Bach Choir.
Hubert Chesshyre sang for the London Docklands Singers, which he joined in 2002.
Hubert Chesshyre was, from 1980, a member of the Madrigal Society, the oldest musical society in Europe.
Hubert Chesshyre became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 1994 and a Liveryman of the Company in 1995.
The Most Noble Order of the Garter, which Hubert Chesshyre co-authored with Peter Begent and Lisa Jefferson, included a foreword by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Hubert Chesshyre was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 11 June 1988 and was promoted to be a Commander of the Order in the New Year Honours of 31 December 2003.
Hubert Chesshyre became a Freeman of the City of London in 1975.
Hubert Chesshyre was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1977 and was a member of its heraldry committee, known as the Croft Lyons Committee.
Hubert Chesshyre was a member of the Council of the Heraldry Society from 1973 until 1985, and he was elected a fellow of the Society in 1990.
Hubert Chesshyre was vice-president of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies and was a Director of the IHGS until 31 December 1993.
Hubert Chesshyre has been honoured with the titles of associate member of the Society of Heraldic Arts and honorary member of the White Lion Society.
Hubert Chesshyre was the patron of the now defunct Middlesex Heraldry Society.
In 1998 the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society appointed Hubert Chesshyre to deliver its annual Mountbatten Memorial Lecture.
Two years later, Hubert Chesshyre was a guest of honour at the CUHAGS Fiftieth Annual Dinner held in the Great Hall of Clare College on 25 March 2000.
Hubert Chesshyre was determined to be unfit to plead due to a stroke and dementia.
At the time of his death, Hubert Chesshyre still held almost all the many other honours conferred upon him throughout his career, despite calls for these, too, to be revoked.
However, the Fellows present at the meeting on 24 October 2019 voted by 76 votes to 33 to reject the resolution, and to allow Hubert Chesshyre to remain a Fellow.