National and regional connections

The Coat of Arms of Mark Lindley‑Highfield of Ballumbie Castle reflects the principal strands of his family history and the historic places with which his ancestors were connected.

In chief appears a representation of Ballumbie Castle in Angus, Scotland, shown as a castle of two towers Argent, masoned Sable, with ports and windows Azure. This refers to the two original towers that still stand and symbolises the territorial designation “of Ballumbie Castle”, formally recognised by William David Hamilton Sellar, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

A Yorkshire rose, depicted with black thorns to sit harmoniously on a green field, acknowledges Mark’s ancestral ties to Yorkshire. His four‑times great‑grandfather was, by the end of his life, a gentleman of that county, and Mark descends from Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale, KG, a Founder Knight of the Garter, to whom his documented pedigree has been enrolled in the archives of the Friends of St George and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter at the College of St George, Windsor.

The fess chequy alludes to Mark’s tenure as 14th Baron of Cartsburn (2008–2010), a Scottish feudal dignity historically held of the Prince and Great Steward of Scotland as Baron of Renfrew. It also reflects his wider Stewart/Stuart family connections through documented lines.

Mark’s family appears in Burke’s Peerage online, where further details of his ancestry may be found.

Mark has personal, familial, or ancestral connections to the following regions:

Wales

Ireland and Northern Ireland

Spain

And, of course, to those who toiled...

Further details on this Family History may be read here.