Category Archives: Clan Crest & Coats of Arm
Dec
Stuart of Bute Clan Crest: Crest Description: A demi-lion rampant, Gules, armed and langued, Azure Stuart of Bute 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 […]
Dec
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Clan Hume/Home People Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) As an advocate, Henry Home defended Captain Porteous in 1736, after he had ordered his men to fire into an Edinburgh crowd. He became Lord Kames in 1752 when made a judge. Kames is near Eccles in Berwickshire. Punishment for the ’45 included the forfeiture of estates […]
Nov
Clan Maitland People Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Lethington (1496 – 1586) Scottish poet, father of William Maitland of Lethington, Secretary of State to Mary I of Scotland. In his later years he was blind, and occupied himself in composing a History of the House of Seaton, and by writing poems, e.g., On the New Year, […]
Nov
MacKay Clan Crest Crest Description: A dexter arm erect couped at the elbow the hand grasping a dagger also erect, all Proper MacKay 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 […]
Nov
Oliphant Clan Crest Crest Description: A unicorn’s head couped Argent armed and manned Or Oliphant 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 […]
Nov
Clan Duncan Crest Worn by all of the name and ancestry Crest Description: On waves of the sea, Argent, a lymphad proper under sail, Or, flagged, Gules, the sail charged with a clarion, Gules Clan Duncan Coat of Arms A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded […]
Nov
Little Clan Crest Crest Description: A demi lion Sable powdered with saltires Argent, armed Gules, in dexter paw a cutlass Proper and in sinister a saltire Argent Little 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 […]