Clans of Kintyre & Islay
Argyll & Bute (south-west)
The long peninsula and the whisky isles, heart of the Lordship of the Isles.
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Families seated in Kintyre & Islay
Historic ties to Kintyre & Islay
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Kintyre & Islay.
- SomerledThe Norse-Gaelic warlord who broke the rule of the Kingdom of Mann at the Sound of Islay in 1156 and founded the Lordship that became Clan Donald.
- Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baron ClydeThe Glasgow carpenter's son who entered the army at fifteen, commanded the 93rd Highlanders as the Thin Red Line at Balaclava in 1854, relieved Lucknow in 1857, and finished his career as Commander-in-Chief in India and a baron of the United Kingdom.