Muirhead Clan Crest Crest Description: Two hands supporting a sword erect in pale, Proper Muirhead Coats of Arms MUIRHEAD of LauchopeArgent, on a bend, Azure, three acorns, Or. blazon of James Grosset Muirhead’s arms. Arms of Willam Morehead, bookplate
Clan Anderson People Adam Anderson (1692 or 1693-1765) Adam Anderson was a Scottish economist. He published a scientific study of the “Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce” in 1765, written from his experience as one of the trustees who established the colony of Georgia under the charter granted to General Oglethorpe in […]
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742 – 1811) Scottish lawyer and politician, born at Dalkeith in 1742. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh. Becoming a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1763, he soon acquired a leading position in the Scottish legal system. He became Solicitor […]
MacKintosh Clan Crest Crest Description: A cat-a-mountain salient guardant, Proper MacKintosh 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 […]
MacAlister Clan Crest Crest Description: A dexter arm in armour erect, the hand holding a dagger in pale, all Proper MacAlister 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 […]
Clan MacTavish People Simon McTavish Simon McTavish (1750 – 1804) Scots-Quebecer entrepreneur and the pre-eminent businessman in Canada during the second half of the 18th century. Born in Stratherrick, near Loch Ness, Inverness. Though his family was well-connected in the Highlands, prospects there were poor, and in 1764, at the age of thirteen, young Simon […]
Clan Graham People Sir John de Graham, (1235-1298) Friend and “Right Hand of Wallace” who died at Falkirk. James Graham, fifth Earl and 1st Marquess (1612-1650) “The Great Montrose” who is a legendary figure and one of the greatest military minds that ever lived. He was a soldier, a poet, a scholar and a loving […]
Clan Cooper People Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross (24 September 1892 – 15 July 1955) Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culrossby Walter Stoneman 1937 in the National Portrait Gallery, London Thomas Cooper was a lawyer, politician, judge, and historian. He was born in 1892 to John Cooper (1843-1901), a civil […]
Rattray Clan Crest: Crest Description: Issuant from a crest coronet Or, a star Or and thereon a flaming heart, Proper Rattray 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 […]
Clan Bethune People Alexander Bethune (1804-1843)Scottish poet, published Tales and Sketches of Scottish Peasantry in 1838. originally employed as a labourer he became a turnkey at Glasgow Prison where he brought out Scottish Peasant’s Fireside in 1842. Henry Norman Bethune (1890 – 1939) Canadian physician, medical innovator, and noted anti-fascist. Bethune came from a prominent […]
