Sir Henry Bedingfeld, Bt, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms

Career: chartered surveyor 1968; Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms 1983-93, York Herald of Arms 1993-2010, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms 2010-; sec Standing Cncl of the Baronetage 1984-88 (memb Exec Ctee 2012-); pres Norfolk Heraldry Soc 2006- (fndr chm 1975-80, vice-pres 1980-2006); vice-pres: Cambridge Univ Heraldic and Genealogical Soc, Suffolk Family History Soc, Norfolk Record Soc; vice-pres Royal Soc of St George; rep of the Duke of Norfolk 1994-97, Cmmn d'Information et de Liaison des Associations Nobles d'Europe 1997-; delg of the Assoc of Armigerous Families of GB to the Cmmn; patron Breckland Soc 2003-, memb The Pilgrims; Freeman City of London 1985, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Scriveners (memb Ct of Assts 2003-, Renter Warden 2010-11, Upper Warden 2011, Master 2012); memb Académie Internationale d'Héraldique; Knight of Sov Mil Order of Malta 1975 (genealogist Br Assoc 1995-2000)

Books and Publications: Oxburgh Hall - The First 500 years (1982), Heraldry (jtly, 1993)