Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue FSA (born 1971), is an English officer of arms who currently serves as York Herald at the College of Arms, London.[1]
O'Donoghue succeeded Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld as York Herald being promoted on 31 May 2012, having previously served as Bluemantle Pursuivant from 2005.
Life and career
editOf ancient Irish descent, he is the only son of Michael John O'Donoghue FGS (1934–2016), an author and lecturer in gemmology at London Metropolitan University, formerly a curator at the British Museum and the National Library of Scotland[2] and Elizabeth Anne Hawkins (née Borley).[3]
After attending Dulwich College, O'Donoghue went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (M.A. 1994),[4] where he was President of the Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society.[5]
After Cambridge, for several years O'Donoghue was a genealogist and researcher, including serving as research assistant to two Windsor Heralds — the late Theo Mathew and Major William Hunt.
O'Donoghue co-edited (with Dr Clive Cheesman now Norroy & Ulster King of Arms), The Coat of Arms, the journal of the Heraldry Society, from 2005 when both heralds succeeded John Brooke-Little, late Clarenceux King of Arms in its editorship.[6]
Elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2015,[7] a Member of the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 2022, an Associate of the Académie internationale d'Héraldique in 2023, O'Donoghue was appointed a Member of the Most Venerable Order of St John in 2024.[8]
In 2002, O'Donoghue married Dr Catherine Ann Wolfe.[9]
Honours and decorations
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
- ^ "The Geological Society of London - Michael O'Donoghue 1934-2016".
- ^ O'Donoghue, (Michael) Peter (Desmond), York Herald, College of Arms, since 2012 | Who's Who & Who Was Who. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
- ^ Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 1005
- ^ www.cuhags.soc.srcf.net
- ^ The Coat of Arms. Third Series Volume 1, No 209: Spring 2005.
- ^ "Mr Peter O'Donoghue".
- ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
- ^ O'Donoghue, Peter, York Herald, College of Arms, since 2012 | Who's Who. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
