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Category Archives: Clan Crest & Coats of Arm
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Clan Colville People Sir Charles Colville (1770 – 1843) British military leader who fought in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He was conferred with the honours Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order. […]
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Hay Clan Crest Crest Description: Issuing out of a crest coronet a falcon volant Proper, armed, jessed and belted Or Hay 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 […]
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Clan Campbell People Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908) The Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1905-1908 was born in Glasgow with a future Lord Provost as a father. To inherit the fortune of a deceased uncle he hyphenated his father’s Campbell with his mother’s name Bannerman. He studied in Glasgow and Cambridge before becoming the liberal […]
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Clan Guthrie People Thomas Guthrie Thomas Guthrie (1803 – 1873) Scottish philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus. He studied for the Church, and became a minister in Edinburgh. Possessed of a commanding presence and voice, and a remarkably effective and picturesque style of oratory, he became perhaps the most popular preacher of his day in […]
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Lockhart Clan Crest Crest Description: On a chapeau Gules furred Ermine a boar’s head erased Argent, langued Gules Lockhart 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 […]
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Clan Arbuthnot People Alexander Arbuthnot (1538 — 1583) Alexander Arbuthnot was a Scottish ecclesiastic poet. After having studied languages and philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and civil law under the noted Jacques Cujas at the University of Bourges in France, Arbuthnot took ecclesiastical orders, and became in his own country a zealous supporter of […]
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Clan Lockhart People Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath Sir George Lockhart of Lee, Lockhart of Carnwath, (1673 – 1731) Scottish writer, spy and politician. Lockhart, who was member for the city of Edinburgh in the Parliament of Scotland, was appointed a commissioner for arranging the union with England in 1705. After the union he continued […]
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Clan Forsyth People William Forsyth (1737 – 1804) – (main image)Scottish botanist. He was a royal head gardener and a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society. A genus of flowering plants, Forsythia, is named in his honor. Forsyth was born at Old Meldrum, in Aberdeenshire, and trained as a gardener at the Chelsea Physic […]
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Clan MacLaren People Colin Maclaurin (1698 – 1746) Colin Maclaurin was born in Kilmodan, Argyll, and attended the University of Glasgow at age eleven. Entering the University at eleven and graduated at 14. After graduation he remained at Glasgow to study divinity for a period and in 1717, aged nineteen, he became professor of mathematics […]