David Sellar Author

David Sellar (1942–2019) taught in the Edinburgh University Law School for some 40 years prior to appointment as Lord Lyon King of Arms in 2008. He maintained a steady stream of significant publications on the medieval history of the Highlands and Islands, with a particular interest not only in what could be learned from clan genealogies of the period, but also in the region’s literary culture and material remains such as Sueno's Stone. Retiring as Lyon in 2014, he was awarded Membership of the Royal Victorian Order, a dynastic order of knighthood awarded at the monarch’s sole discretion for distinguished personal service. 

Hector L. MacQueen is Emeritus Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh. He was Scottish Law Commissioner 2009–18, President of the Society of Legal Scholars 2012–13, Literary Director of the Stair Society 1999–2017 and has been Vice-President of the Stair Society since 2018. He is author of Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, co-author of Law, Lordship and Tenure: The Fall of the Black Douglases and editor of Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar.