Percy Gordon Dalyell of the Binns CIE DL (died 15 September 1953) was a British soldier, colonial administrator and officer of arms.
Dalyell was born as Percy Gordon Loch, the son of Lt Col William Loch. On 9 August 1905 he commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst into the British Indian Army.[1] He was a member of the Loch family. While in India he worked in the Indian Political Department and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. Between 1939 and his death in 1953 he was Unicorn Pursuivant in the Court of the Lord Lyon.[2] He was admitted to the Royal Company of Archers and held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of West Lothian from 1938.[3]
On 12 September 1928 he married Eleanor Dalyell, daughter of Sir James Wilkie-Dalyell of the Binns, 9th Baronet, and assumed the surname of Dalyell by decree of Lord Lyon King of Arms. They had a son, later to become an MP Tam Dalyell, who was born 9 August 1932.[4]
References
edit- ^ "No. 27824". The London Gazette. 4 August 1905. p. 5377.
- ^ The Court of the Lord Lyon: Unicorn Pursuivant. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "No. 34509". The London Gazette. 10 May 1938. p. 3025.
- ^ Wilson, Brian (26 January 2017). "Tam Dalyell obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
