CLAN CARRUTHERS SOCIETY (INTERNATIONAL) Founded on a Royal Charter to Holmains, 1755.
Official Home of the Scottish Border Clan and Family of Carruthers. Honorary President: Dr Peter Carruthers of Holmains, Clan Chief
Disappearing Carruthers Again in attempt to set the record straight, at the request of several members, here is the facts that are currently available. Why!! As people attempt to justify their actions and lack of credibility, they have a tendency to weave untruths and falsehoods around themselves in an attempt to vindicate their house of… Continue reading CLAN CARRUTHERS : The Myth of the Disappearing Carruthers’s
Professor Gerard Carruthers, is a pre-eminent Scottish Scholar specialising in Scottish Literature. He is accepted worldwide as one of the world's authorities on Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. As a member of our society, we asked if he would kindly write a synopsis of he he is and what he does. We are proud of… Continue reading CLAN CARRUTHERS: Prof. Gerard Carruthers
As we approach the festive season to include New Year or Hogmanay, as we call it in Scotland, some will choose to wear the kilt or other Scottish tartan attire. I have therefore been asked to write a piece on the correct method of wear. Accepting clan or family, rather than regional tartan is an… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: How to wear Highland and Lowland dress.
A hearing of the Lyon Court. The authority of the Lyon Court, established in 1532 in Scotland, comes directly from the Crown. Therefore today, Wednesday 31st October, the CCSI had the great privilege of attending and witnessing a hearing of the Lyon Court, held in George Street, Edinburgh. It was presided over by the Lord… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: The Chief, the Clan and the Lyon – A Hearing of the Lyon Court in Edinburgh.
Sadly, after James IV's death on Flodden field in 1513, Scotland was left under the government of a Regency Council headed by the Dowager Queen Margaret who was sister to Henry VIII. Her power base was eventually lost after a civil war, initiated in part by her Marriage to the 6th Earl of Angus, Archibald… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: the Battle of Solway Moss.
It is obvious that the Scots/Ulster Scots played an important role in the American War of Independence and then in the birth of America as we know it. Many of these were Border Scots, running from the post-reiver persecution initiated by James IV to clean up the bad lands of the Anglo-Scottish border of his newly… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Carruthers and the American Revolution
The Jacobite cause was an underground dynastic and cultural movement that supported the restoration of the main line of the House of Stuart to the throne. It took its name from Jacobus, Latin for James. It was initiated after the 'Glorious Revolution' in 1688 and supported the deposed Roman Catholic King, James II of England's… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Carruthers and the Jacobites
The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and is the German word for 'lightning'. The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London during the afternoon of September 7, 1940 heralded a tactical shift… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Carruthers and the Blitz
Carruthers, like many families and clans with descendants located around the world, is represented by a diverse population of those bearing our name. One of the most famous of which is George Robert Carruthers, an African-American Scientist and inventor of some renown. George was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1939, being the eldest of 4… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: George R. Carruthers
Within the lists of British nobility headed by the Royal family, only a Duke is deemed senior to that of a Marquess. The title of Marquess of Queensberry, a member of the Scottish peerage, has been held by a branch of the Douglas family since 1682, being bestowed upon them by King Charles II of… Continue reading Clan Carruthers: Marquess of Queensberry and Carruthers
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