Armigerous Clans

[raibeart_dubh]

Yes, for example, the current chief of the Lamont clan is Australian, and lives there, from what I understand.

There are quite a few chiefs that reside in/were born in countries other than Scotland. The chief of Macleod of Lewis is also Australian and I read somwhere that the chief of Clan Murray, the Duke of Atholl, is from South Africa. We have a couple residing here in the U.S. as well.

[gilmore]

I know this is an improbable scenario but humor me. Are any of the Chiefs non-Scots? Could some kind of wacky King Ralph story play out? Would hilarity ensue or would the Lord Lyon take one look at the passport and say "Oh hell no!" Genealogically speaking, it seems that any movement from Scotland would add a lot of water to the ancestral claim.

There would be neither hilarity nor refusal of a chiefdom to a non-Scot. There are quite a few. If you would like to know how many, you can go here http://www.clanchiefs.org/p/chiefs.html and look up their addresses.

The clan system predates even feudalism, and both predate the existence of nation-states as we know them.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Count Randal MacDonald of the Glens (Mc Iain Mohr) is both an Irish and Scottish chief... And is resident in Dublin.

[Macman]

The chief of Clan Mackintosh is currently working in Singapore, although his residence is still Moy Hall, Inverness-shire. The chief of Clan Chattan, Malcolm Mackintosh, resides in Zimbabwe.

[ThistleDown]

Further to Macman's comments on Clan Chatttan's chiefs' residency: Macpherson of Cluny lives in Scotland, as does Maclean of Dochgarroch; McBain of McBain is in Arizona, Davidson of Davidston in New Zealand, Shaw of Tordarroch in Spain, and Farquharson of Invercauld and MacThomas of Finegand in England.