Eric Neville Geijer

Who was Eric Neville Geijer?

Eric Neville Geijer, DSO, MC, FSA was a decorated Guards officer, royal herald, and genealogist. He was the second son of the Swedish diplomat Carl Emmanuel de Geijer and his English wife, Lila Lucy, née White.

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

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

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

He died intestate on 14 January 1941. At the time of his death, his address was Little Bowstridge, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.