The Clan "COLQUHOUN"

The name derives from the barony of Colquhoun, Dumbartonshire, and is first recorded in 1259. Towards the end of the fourteenth century, Sir Robert Colquhoun married the "Fair Maid of Luss", heiress to the lands of Luss. The Colquhouns were fully involved in the machinations that led to the proscription of the MacGregors in 1603, having two months before that suffered at Glen Fruin a crippling defeat at the hands of an inferior force of MacGregors in a fair fight. The chief of the Colquhouns clan at the time was Sir Alexander Colquhoun of Luss, whose descendent, Sir Humphrey Colquhoun (d,1715), 17th Laird of Luss, was a member of the last Scottish Parliament and strongly opposed the Act of Unison of 1707. Having only a daughter to succeed him, he made a deal with the Crown whereby he surrendered his baronetcy in return for an assurance that his daughter and son-in-law, James Grant, would inherit the lands and the chieftainship of the clan, provided that the clan name would never be under control of the Grant family.

Dorothy May Kirkpatrick Bozell

William Bryant Kirkpatrick 1843 - 1915

James Kirkpatrick 1791 - 1872

Samuel Kirkpatrick 1767 - 1826

James Kirkpatrick 1728 - 1778

John Kirkpatrick 1703 - 1757

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