Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Bt, THE LAW OF SUCCESSION: ORIGINS AND BACKGROUND OF THE LAW OF SUCCESSION TO ARMS AND DIGNITIES IN SCOTLAND. Ed by Jackson W Armstrong Edinburgh: John Donald (www.birlinn.co.uk), 2010. xxiv + 293 pp. ISBN 9781904607861. £70.

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AuthorDavid Sellar
DOI10.3366/elr.2011.0073
Published date01 September 2011
Date01 September 2011
Pages503-504

Sir Iain Moncreiffe, Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms, and later Albany Herald, is now best remembered as the writer of one of the most popular and successful books ever written in English on heraldry, namely his Simple Heraldry (1953), “cheerfully illustrated” by Don Pottinger, and also for his The Highland Clans (1967). It is a pleasure, therefore, to welcome the publication of Sir Iain's Edinburgh PhD thesis after a lapse of fifty years, and to congratulate the editor, Jackson Armstrong, on his painstaking and thoughtful editing of this handsome book. The decision to publish a thesis submitted as long ago as 1958 may seem surprising, especially given the great flowering of Scottish historical studies in the interim, but it is well justified. Although the title may suggest a dry discussion of an arcane topic, this is no narrow study: nothing Sir Iain wrote was ever dull or less than...

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