Doctor William Thomas Harvey, Officer of Arms for Henry VIII and Edward VI

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey_(officer_of_arms)_

William Harvey (1510 – 1567) was an English officer of arms. Born June 1510 to Turner and Mary Harvey in Ashill, Somerset. He had a brother Thomas Harvey of London, whose daughter Audrey Harvey married William Jefferay.[1]

Appointments

• 1536 - Blue-Mantle Pursuivant in ordinary
• 1545 - Somerset Herald by Henry VIII
• 1550 - Norry King of Arms by King Edward
• 1557 - Queen Mary deputed him to go to France to declare war (I have since discovered that this is untrue. William Flowers, Norrey King of Arms was the herald who informed Henri II of France that England had declared war.)
• 1566 - King of Arms at his death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Arms

References

• Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Harvey, William (d.1567)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co link
• 1. See the diary of their son: The journal of William Jefferay, gentleman: Born at Chiddingly, old England, in the Year 1591; Died at Newport, New England, in the Year 1675, edited by John Osborne Austin (Providence, R.I.: 1899), pages 1–2 Archive.Org