Category Archives: Clan Crest & Coats of Arm

Kinnear Crest & Coats of Arms

Kinnear Clan Crest Crest Description: Two anchors crossed, Proper Kinnear 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 […]

Lamont Crest & Coats of Arms

Lamont Clan Crest Crest Description: A dexter hand couped at the wrist, all Proper Lamont 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 […]

Haldane Places & People

Clan Haldane People James Alexander Haldane (1768 – 1851) Scottish independent church leader. The younger son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey House, in Stirlingshire, he was born at Dundee. Educated first at Dundee Grammar School and afterwards at the Royal High School and University of Edinburgh, at the age of seventeen he joined the […]

Montgomery Crest & Coats of Arms

Montgomery Clan Crest Crest Description: A lady dressed in ancient apparel Azure holding in her dexter hand an anchor and in her sinister hand the head of a savage couped suspended by the hair, all Proper Montgomery Coats of Arms: A note on Coats of Arms: Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is […]

Clan Belshes Crest & Coats of Arms

Clan Belshes Crest Worn by all of the name and ancestry Crest Description: A greyhound’s head couped, Argent, collared, Azure Clan Belshes Coat 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 […]

Seton Crest & Coats of Arms

Seton Clan Crest: Crest Description: On a ducal coronet, a dragon Vert, spouting fire Proper, with wings elevated and charged with a star Argent Seton 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) […]

Clan Beveridge Places & People

Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge (1933 – 1999) Scottish chemist, President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1986 to 1997. During his time he was responsible for extending the reach of the University to the South and West of the country. He was born in St Andrews and brought up in […]

Clan Buchan Places & People

Clan Buchan Alexander Buchan (11 April 1829 – 13 May 1907) The Buchan Spells is a popular term in meteorology that derived from Alexander Buchan, that first noticed these departures from the normal expected temperatures during seasons. He established the weather map as the foundation of weather forecasting John Buchan (26 August 1875 – 11 […]