Clans of Galloway

Families seated in Galloway

• Clan BruceNorman blood, Scottish crown, the line that won Bannockburn.
• Clan JohnstoneThe fighting Johnstons of the Western Borders.
• Clan MaxwellCaerlaverock and the Solway shore, the great Border clan of the south-west.

Historic ties to Galloway

Families with historic but not core ground here.

• Clan Armstrong
• Clan Graham

Champions made here

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Galloway.

• James Clerk MaxwellThe Edinburgh-born physicist whose four equations unified electricity, magnetism and light, and whose photograph of a tartan ribbon in 1861 was the first colour image ever made.