124 ANCESTRAL CLANS AND FAMILIES of the latter half of the sixth century, when the Northern Picts received Christianity. This family belongs to the MacArthur division (Artair of Clan Campbell, which with the Clan Lac Leod, are the two oldest, originat ing from the tribes in the west of Alban before the Scots of Dalriada in Erin led a colony to the west of Alban_ Somewhere in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, Candish Mc Candlish, a young West Highland chieftain, married a daughter of the power ful House of Buchanan, of Buchanan Castle, Loch Lomond. This family was connected by marriage with the royal line and with the Clan Graham, from whence came the gallant Dundee, and the Great Montrose, leaders of the Highlanders in loyalty and devotion to the ancient laws and dynasty of their native land.
BUCHANAN HOUSE Badge, Bilberry. Oak. War Cry-Clar Ennis The family lands lay in Menteith and Lennox near Lochs Katrine and Lomond, and the Lairds of Buchanan built the ancient peel of that name. In parceling out the forfeited estate of the outlawed Earl of Buchan, the Earldom was conferred on Alexander Stewart, son of Robert II. Mary, Countess Df Buchan, married, 1607, James Erskine, second son of John, Earl of Mar. David Stewart, eleventh earl, lord of Cardross. When the Earl of Lennox, a Stewart, gave to Glibert, his seneschal, a portion of the lands of Buchan which he had received, this being land in Stirlingshire, the family took the name of Buchanan about the middle of the thirteenth century. Don ald, the sixth Earl of Lennox, renewed the grant of his ancestor to Maurice Buchanan, and the King confirmed it to his successor, whose son Walter mar ried the sole heiress of Lemy and became connected with the royal house. Alexander, the eldest son, was distinguished in war and was slain at the battle of Verneuil; the second son, Walter, succeeded to Buchanan, and the third son of Lemy. Walter married Isabel, daughter of Murdoch, Duke of Albany (a Stewart), Countess of Lennox. Their eldest son, Patrick, mar ried the heiress of Kiltearn; the youngest, Thomas, founded the House of Drumakill, whence in the third generation came the historian, George Buchanan. Patrick's son Walter married a daughter of Lord Graham, a younger son. Walter was known as the facetious "King of Kippen" (Reign of James V). Patrick was slain at Floddeb, 1513. He left two sons by hlB wife, a daughter of Argyll, George, sheriff of Dumbarton, and Walter, founder of the House of Spittal, who left two sons, John, the heir, and William, founder of the line of Buchanan of Auchmar. The principal line of the Buchanans became extinct in 1682, and the representation was claimed by Buchanan of Auchmar, which branch became extinct in 1846. The present chief is John Hamilton of Lemy. A Buchanan was created a Baronet in 1878. The family lands of 'Buchanan near Lochs Katrine and Lomond are now possessed by the Duke of Montrose, through succession from the mar riage of Walter Buchanan to a daughter of Lord Graham, who fell at Pinkie, 1547; and the main line dying out in 1682, the property was acquired by the grandson of the Great Montrose. Buchanan Castle on Loch Lomond is now the chief seat of the Duke of Montrose. There is much of historic inter est about Loch Lomond and the islands; the yews planted by Bruce ·for crossbows grow there yet. Balimaha was the gate of the Macgregor country and many a creagh of driven cattle went through the pass. Opposite this is Inch Caillach, or the "Isle of Old Women," from a nunnery founded there by Kentigerna, and this island was the burial place of Rob Roy's foragers, marked by many a grey stane. Another island &outh of this was Clar Ennis, the rendezvous of the Clan Buchanan, whof'" lands lay at the mouth of the Endrick . The region of Strathendrick is celebrated as Sweet Ennerdale in the old song of the Gallant-Graha·n's. Ross Priory, seat of Sir Alexandel' Leith Buchanan further along the shore, was a favorite resting place of Sir Walter Scott, who gathered there much of his material for Rob Roy. Inch