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Boswell of Toberchurn
ARMS: Argent, on a fess sable cotised gules a wolf's head erased or langued gules between two cinquefoils argent.

SOURCE/NOTES & CREDITS: The arms are from the Letters Patent with TD (replacing his original matriculation) which are registered on page 22, vol. 89, dated 23 October 2008, of The Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.

Colonel William Paret Boswell of Toberchurn, CHCRP, LOM, KSS, CStJ, KGCHS, CVV, GCSMA, GCM, FSA Scot, FABF, FSSA, FACH, BA (Hons.), JD, LLD, USAF (Ret.) Born in 1946 he was the Chairman of the Society of Scottish Armigers (SSA) from 2008-2012, he is also (inter alia) a mayor (emeritus since January 2014), a retired substantive (full) colonel in the USAF, a holder of the US Legion of Merit, a Commander of the Most Venerable Order of St John, and a Knight Grand Cross of the (Papal) Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. In 2023 he was named a Knight of the Order of St Sylvester by Pope Francis. He received an LLD honoris causa in 2013.

HRH Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganca, created him a hereditary knight (CHCRP = Cavaleiro Hereditario da Casa Real Portugesa de Braganca) by Letters Patent in 2015 for services to the Royal House of Portugal, an honor rarely conferred. In 2016, HRH awarded him the Banda (Grand Cross) of the Order of Merit of the Portuguese Royal House. HRH had conferred upon him the distinction of a Commander of the Order of Vila Vicosa in 2014. He also holds the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael of the Wing (2011).

A friend of long standing, he is one of a group of friends who own lands on the Isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The grant is reflective of his descent from the Boswells of Balmuto, Fife.

The artwork is an interpretation by John Hamilton Gaylor.

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