RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Thomson is the anglicised form

Thomson is the anglicised form of the name MacTavish

of special interest or antiquity

or MacDuffie held lands on the Isle of Colonsay until the mid seventeenth century but were later scattered by the clearances

The chief of the MacKintoshes is also chief of Clan Chattan

It is not recorded in any of the early illustrated books

RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Thomson is the anglicised formThe name Ruthven comes from the old Barony of Ruthven in Angus. Ruthvens were Earls of Gowrie at the time of James VI of Scotland. More recently Sir Alexander Hore Ruthven of Freeland, Governor General of Australia, was created Earl of Gowrie in 1945. The Ruthven tartan was not named until the publication of the book known as the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842.