Legal Instrument - Commission in Favor of Jon Logan as Commander of the Family Logan [2025-12-18]

Legal Instrument - Commission in Favor of Jon Logan as Commander of the Family Logan [2025-12-18]

Hereditary Chiefships

Scotland

Commission of the Lord Lyon King of Arms in favor of Jon Kevin Logan as Commander of the Family Logan.

Joseph John Morrow (Lord Lyon King of Arms)

2025-12-18

Brady Brim-DeForest

Scotland

Unto All and Sundry whom These Presents Do or May Concern, WE, Joseph John Morrow, Lord Lyon King of Arms send Greeting: Whereas it has been represented to Us that the Hereditary Chiefship of the Family Logan is dormant; That the dormancy of the Chiefship of the said Family has created difficulties in maintaining the well-being of the said Family and of its Branches and Houses at home and overseas; That in order to preserve the spirit of kinship and the traditions of the said Family, a Commander ad interim should be recognised to rally the members of the said Family, to convene meetings thereof and to preside thereat during the dormancy of the Chiefship; That the Principal Men and Women that now are of the Family Logan have, after due consideration by way of Family or Family Conclave, otherwise known as derbhfine selection, selected and recommended to Us Jon Kevin Logan, residing at [REDACTED] as a fit proper person to be recognised as Commander ad interim of the said Family; Now Therefore We, after due consideration and investigation, being well satisfied as to the good qualities, abilities and loyalty of Jon Kevin Logan, and of his fitness for the said Office, do by These Presents Recognise and Confirm the said Jon Kevoin [sic] Logan as Commander ad interim for a period of five years from the date hereof of the Family both at home and abroad with power and commission to him to do and perform all acts and functions proper to the Commander of the said Family in the personal absence of the Hereditary Chief thereof, in the same manner and to the same effect as if he had been specially appointed and instructed by such Hereditary Chief; And We direct These Presents to be recorded in the Books of the Lyon Court (Probative Writs Section); In Testimony Whereof we have subscribed These Presents and the Seal of Our Office is affixed hereto at Edinburgh this Eighteenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty five before this witness Russell Gilchrest Hunter, Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records.

Printed in Bradley Hand ITC or a similar font. Many incipits are in red. "Ad interim" is underlined.

Signed by Russell Gilchrest Hunter (Lyon Clerk) and Joseph John Morrow (Lord Lyon King of Arms).

Red wafer seal of the Lord Lyon at the bottom in between the signatures.

A Clan Commander provides leadership in the absence of a Hereditary Chief. The selection process involves asking the Lord Lyon to authorize a Family meeting to consider the candidates. Lyon will also appoint an Officer to oversee the process and inform him of the Family's choice.