Peter O'Donoghue (officer of arms)
Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue is a British officer of arms who currently serves as York Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London. He was appointed to the office on 31 May 2012, having served as Bluemantle Pursuivant from 2005.Life and career
The son of Michael John O'Donoghue, a lecturer in gemmology at the London Metropolitan University and a noted author of books on the subject, formerly a curator at the British Museum and the National Library of Scotland, and Elizabeth Anne Hawkins, O'Donoghue was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he was president of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society. He worked for several years as a genealogist and researcher, including time spent as research assistant to two Windsor Heralds—the late Theobald Mathew and William Hunt.
With Clive Cheesman, O'Donoghue is the co-editor of The Coat of Arms, the twice-yearly journal of the Heraldry Society. The two heralds took over that position in 2005 from the late John Brooke-Little, former Clarenceux King of Arms.
In 2002, O'Donoghue married Catherine Ann Wolfe, Ph.D.
