International Commission on Orders of Chivalry (1996)

Membership of the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry (Commission Internationale Permanente d'Études des Ordres de Chevalerie) as of January 1996

The list of names (and nothing else) comes from a post to rec.heraldry on May 9, 1996 by David Wooten. The biographical information on the individuals is provided by James Algrant and Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, and taken from Who's Who, Burke's Landed Gentry, etc. The opinions expressed on this site are not necessarily theirs.

Executive Committee

• President:
  Lt. Col. Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (†)
• Vice-President:
  The MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Desmond
• Chairman:
  The Rt. Hon. the Lord Borthwick of that Ilk
• Secretary-General:
  Lt. Colonel Baron O'Kelly de Conejera

Members

• the Rt. Hon. The Lord Borthwick of that Ilk
  Born 1905, member of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs.  GC of St Lazarus 1975, Niadh Nask 1982, commander of the Rose of Lippe, a member of the original commission. Current President.
• the Chevalier Gerard Crotty
  founding member of the Heraldry Society of Ireland, former Secretary of the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs, a Trustee of the State Heraldic Museum; Niadh Nask.
• the Chevalier Michael Joseph Egan, of Redwood Castle
  Born 1917, a prominent Irish solicitor. Bailiff Grand Cross of Obedience of Malta, once President the national association of the Order of Malta in Ireland, Knight Commander of the papal order of St Gregory the Great (and currently President of the Association of Papal Knights in Ireland). Member of the Heraldry Society of Ireland and the English Heraldry Society, trustee of the State Heraldic Museum of Ireland.
• Lt. Colonel Gayre of Gayre and Nigg
  Born 1905 as Robert Gayre, died Feb. 10, 1996. Founder of the British branch of St Lazarus. Secretary-general of the 6th International Congress of Heraldry and Genealogy. Secretary-general of the original ICOC and chairman from 1978. Constable of the Niadh Nask.
• the Chevalier David Lumsden of Cushnie
  Head of the Scottish Castles Trust, Garioch Pursuivant, knight of Honor & Devotion of Malta; Grand Herald of St Lazarus, Niadh Nask.
• Terence Francis MacCarthy, The MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Desmond
  Born 1957; founder and member of the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs; head of the Niadh Nask, which he founded ca. 1980; member of St Lazarus.
• Charles James McKerrell, of Hillhouse
  Born 1941; GC of St Lazarus, Chancellor of Niadh Nask.
• Lt. Col. Baron Patrick T. O'Kelly de Conejera
  Born 1921 as Patrick Kelly or O'Kelly; assumed the (allegedly Spanish) title of baron and name of O'Kelly de Conejera by deed poll in 1955; Grand Banner Bearer of St Lazarus; Niadh Nask.
• the Chevalier Zygmunt von Sikorski Mazur
• Captain the Chevalier R. Mingo Sweeney, of Bolgers Park
  Canadian heraldist, a member of the original commission; St Lazarus, Niadh Nask.

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