Eric Neville Geijer

Eric Neville Geijer
MC FSA
Rouge Dragon Pursuivant
In office
19 October 1926 – 1941 (died)
Preceded byJohn Heaton-Armstrong
Succeeded byMichael Trappes-Lomax
Personal details
Born
Erik Neville von Geijer

1894
Germany
Died14 January 1941
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Resting placeBrookwood Cemetery
NationalityNaturalized British, 1914
RelationsCarl Emanuel von Geijer (father)
William Arthur White (grandfather)
AwardsDistinguished Service Order, Military Cross
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Years of service1914-
RankCaptain
UnitGrenadier Guards
Intelligence Corps

Eric Neville Geijer [a] MC FSA (1894–1941) was a decorated Guards officer, royal herald, and genealogist. He was the second son of the Swedish diplomat Carl Emmanuel von Geijer and his English wife, Lila Lucy, née White (daughter of William Arthur White).

Educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a cadet in the Wellington College Contingent of the Officer Training Corps.[1] On 26 November 1914 he was naturalized as a subject of the United Kingdom,[2] serving in the British Army during the First World War. Initially a second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment,[3] from February 1917 he was attached to the Grenadier Guards,[4] serving with distinction.[5] Geijer was awarded the Military Cross in 1918, for leading a patrol that entered an enemy position under heavy machine-gun fire,[6] and briefly attained the rank of acting captain.[7]

On 19 October 1926 he was appointed to the College of Arms as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant.[8][9]

In 1929 he became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He was a trustee of the Catholic Record Society.[10]

Geijer married Ethel Trueman in 1933. He died on 14 January 1941. At the time of his death, his address was Little Bowstridge, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.[11] He was described as a captain in the Intelligence Corps when he was buried at Brookwood Cemetery


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  1. ^ "No. 29000". The London Gazette. 8 December 1914. p. 10460.
  2. ^ Certificate reference in The National Archives, Kew, accessed 3 May 2010.
  3. ^ "No. 29000". The London Gazette. 8 December 1914. p. 10460.
  4. ^ "No. 29930". The London Gazette. 2 February 1917. p. 1252.
  5. ^ Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914–1918, vol. 3
  6. ^ "No. 30950". The London Gazette. 11 October 1918. p. 12070.
  7. ^ "No. 31066". The London Gazette. 13 December 1918. p. 14759.
  8. ^ "No. 33214". The London Gazette. 22 October 1926. p. 6749.
  9. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th edition (1937), vol. 1, p. xxx.
  10. ^ Catholic Record Society publications: Records series, vol. 40, 1943.
  11. ^ "No. 35273". The London Gazette. 12 September 1941. p. 5333.