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Clan Gregor, also known as Clan MacGregor, [2] is a Highland Scottish clan that claims an origin in the early 9th century. The clan's most famous member is Rob Roy MacGregor of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. [ 2 ]
Clan map of Scotland The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs ) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans , mottoes , and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms ...
Along with many Highland clansmen, at the age of eighteen Rob Roy MacGregor together with his father joined the Jacobite rising of 1689 led by John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, and Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, to support the Stuart King James VII, whose flight from Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 had been declared by the English Convention Parliament to be an abdication, then ...
The Battle of Glen Fruin was a Scottish clan battle fought on 7 February 1603 between the Clan Gregor and its allies on one side, and the Clan Colquhoun and its allies on the other. The Clan Gregor (or MacGregor) and Clan Colquhoun were at feud due to the MacGregors carrying out raids on the Colquhoun's lands.
Lineage of the seven clans of Siol Alpin. Siol Alpin (from Gaelic, Sìol Ailpein: Seed of Alpin) is a family of seven Scottish clans traditionally claiming descent from Alpin, [1] father of Cináed mac Ailpín, King of the Picts, of whom the Scots tradition considered the first King of Scots. [2]
English: Tartan named after Robert Roy MacGregor (Rob Roy) in 1850, and also known as MacGregor Red and Black. The pattern dates to at least 1815-16 as a MacGregor tartan, when the Royal Highland Society of London solicited clan tartans from chiefs, and the chief of Clan Gregor supplied this one.
A number of Macgregor's relatives were officers in the British East India Company; his father had served in it as an officer, [nb 2] as had his paternal uncles the baronet Sir John (who was Military Auditor General) [8] and Peter Macgregor (an adjutant-general), [2] and his cousins Sir Evan John Macgregor, 2nd Baronet, [6] General John Alexander Paul Macgregor and General Sir Duncan Macgregor.
Brigadier Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet (22 December 1925 – 30 March 2003) was a British Army officer and Scottish clan chief. He succeeded his father, Malcolm MacGregor, 5th Baronet , and became the 23rd Chief of Clan Gregor from 1958 until his death.