title: Henry Paston-Bedingfeld
text: Sir Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet (born 7 December 1943) is a British baronet and retired officer of arms.
  
  Family and career
  Paston-Bedingfeld is the only son of Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, by his wife Joan Lynette Rees. He succeeded to the family title upon his father's death on 24 May 2011. He was educated at Ampleforth College, then an all-boys private school in Ampleforth, Yorkshire.
  
  Paston-Bedingfeld served as Rouge Croix Pursuivant from 1983, and then in 1993 became York Herald. In 2010 he was promoted to Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, the junior of the two provincial Kings-at-Arms, with jurisdiction over the north of England and Northern Ireland.  
  In July 2014, he retired and was succeeded by Timothy Duke.
  
  He is an Honorary Vice-president of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society and of the Norfolk Record Society; Sir Henry is also a liveryman of the Bowyers' Company and served as Master of the Scriveners' Company for 2012–13.
  
  In 1968, Paston-Bedingfield married Mary Kathleen, a daughter of Brigadier Robert Ambrose CIE OBE MC, and they have two sons and two daughters; their elder son, Richard (born 1975) is heir apparent to the baronetcy.
  
  Selected heraldic designs by Paston-Bedingfeld
  Derby Grammar School
  Institute of Traffic Accident Inspectors
  Royal Society of St George
  
  Honours
    – Baronet
    – Knight of Malta
  
  Arms
  
  See also
  Heraldry
  College of Arms
  Paston-Bedingfeld baronets
  
  References
  
  External links 
   Biography on Debrett's People of Today website
   Standing Council of the Baronetage website
   www.scriveners.org.uk
  
  1943 births
  Living people
  People from Breckland District
  People educated at Ampleforth College
  British genealogists
  English officers of arms
  Knights of Malta
  Baronets in the Baronetage of England