Gow Clan Crest Crest Description: A cat sejant, Proper Gow Coats of Arms: A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic or corporate arms) . There is no such thing as a ‘family coat of arms’ The arms represented […]
Clan Rutherford People Daniel Rutherford Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 December 1819) Daniel Rutherford was a physician, chemist and botanist, most famous for his discovery of Nitrogen in 1772. Rutherford was born in Edinburgh to Professor John Rutherford (1695-1779) and Anne MacKay. He was educated at Mundell’s School, and later the University of […]
Jardine Tartans Jardine Tartan
In its original Gaelic, Saint Columba’s name was Colm. MacCallum means ‘son of Colm’. The ancient Kingdom of Dalriada where the first Scots of Ireland settled was home to Columba and the ancestors of the MacCallums. Despite all this we should not see the two as relations in blood but interpret the name MacCallum as […]
This Cameron tartan came from the Sobieskis Vestiarium Scoticum. To try and make it authentic they described it in their own version of medieval English as ‘fovr stryppis of grein upon ane scarlatt field, and throuchovt ye red sett ain strypp’. The term ‘ancient’ refers to the dye shades, normally lighter, whereas ‘modern’ refers to […]
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The name MacRae or the gaelic ‘McRath’ is understood to mean ‘son of grace’ and is commonly thought to be of ecclesiastical origin. The clan name first appears in the district of Beauly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries but within one hundred years they had migrated to Kintail in Wester Ross. The clan MacRae, […]
Clan MacNab People Colin McNab Colin McNab (born 1961) Scotland’s 2nd chess Grandmaster, fulfiling the requirements for the title in 1992 just after Paul Motwani. After achieving his three norms, he strained to get his rating up to the required 2500 level, and is possibly unique among Grandmasters in only achieving a published rating of […]
Nairn Clan Crest Crest Description: A celestial globe on a stand, Proper Nairn Coats of Arms A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic or corporate arms) . There is no such thing as a ‘family coat of arms’ […]
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