Robert Noel


Robert John Baptist Noel is an Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London.
The younger son of The Hon. Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel, of Westington Mill, Chipping Campden, a barrister, he is in remainder to his grandfather's earldom.
Robert Noel was educated at Ampleforth College, Exeter College, Oxford and St Edmund's College, Cambridge, before training as a shipbroker, then as a library assistant at the College of Arms before joining the auctioneers, Christie's of London. He was appointed Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms at the College of Arms in October 1992, and succeeded Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones as Lancaster Herald of Arms in Ordinary in September 1999.
He is a Freeman of the City of London and has been admitted as a liveryman of the Glaziers' Company.
Noel married Rowena Hale in 2013; the couple live in London and have a son, William. and a daughter Phoebe born 2016. He serves as the official genealogist for the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.

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