Clans of Buchan & Mar

Families seated in Buchan & Mar

• Clan BairdLawyers, soldiers, and statesmen of Lanarkshire and the north-east.
• Clan HayHereditary Constables of Scotland, second only to the crown.
• Clan LeslieSoldiers of fortune, Scots field-marshals across Europe.
• Clan GordonThe Cocks of the North, Earls and Dukes of Aberdeenshire.
• MitchellOf Michael, the diminutive that became its own surname in north-east Scotland.
• Clan ForbesLord Forbes, Scotland's senior baron, of Aberdeenshire.

Historic ties to Buchan & Mar

Families with historic but not core ground here.

• Smith
• Brown
• Wilson
• Anderson
• Young

Champions made here

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Buchan & Mar.

• Thomas ReidThe Aberdeen-trained minister who answered David Hume's skepticism with the philosophy of Common Sense and founded the Scottish school that would shape American thought through the nineteenth century.