Sir Lachlan Maclean, 12th Baronet explained

Honorific Prefix:The Honourable
Sir Lachlan Maclean
Birth Name:Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean
Birth Date:25 August 1942
28th Clan Chief
12th Baronet
8th Lord Maclean
Children:5 (4 living)
Term:1990 - present
Predecessor:Charles Maclean, Baron Maclean, father
Spouse:
    Education:Eton College

    Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean of Duart and Morven, 12th Baronet, CVO, DL (born 25 August 1942) is the 28th chief of Clan Maclean.

    Biography

    Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean was born on 25 August 1942, the elder child of Charles Maclean (later created a life peer as Baron Maclean) and his wife, Elizabeth Mann. He was educated at Eton.

    On 2 November 1966, he married Mary Helen Gordon (31 October 1943 – 30 December 2007), and the couple had five children. On the death of his father in 1990, he succeeded him as a Baronet of Nova Scotia and as Chief of the Name and Arms of Maclean. On 8 September 2010, he married Rosemary Matheson.

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    Issue

    Ancestry

    Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean's ancestors in three generations
    Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean, 12th BtFather:
    Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean, Baron Maclean
    (1916 - 1990)
    Paternal Grandfather:
    Hector Fitzroy Maclean
    (1873 - 1932)
    Paternal Great-Grandfather:
    Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet[2]
    Paternal Great-grandmother:
    Paternal Grandmother:
    Winifred Joan Wilding
    (d. 1941)
    Paternal Great-Grandfather:
    John Hodgkiss Wilding
    Paternal Great-Grandmother:
    Mother:
    (Joan) Elizabeth Mann
    Maternal Grandfather:
    Francis Thomas Mann
    Maternal Great-Grandfather:
    Maternal Great-Grandmother:
    Maternal Grandmother:
    Maternal Great-grandfather:
    Maternal Great-Grandmother:

    Heraldry

    Notes:The quartering of the lymphad, embattled tower, salmon, and eagles' heads are characteristic of west highland heraldry.[3] It has been suggested that the eagles' heads may represent the hawks which Maclean chiefs supplied to kings of Scots on certain occasions. The rock may represent Cairnburgh, in the Treshnish Isles.[4]
    Crest:A tower embattled argent.[5]
    Escutcheon:Quarterly, 1st. argent, a rock gules, 2nd, argent, a dexter hand fessewise couped gules holding a cross-crosslet fitchée in pale azure, 3rd, Or, a lymphad, oars in saltire, and sails furled, sable, flagged gules, 4th argent, a salmon naiant proper, in chief two eagles' heads respectant gules.
    Supporters:Dexter, A seal proper. Sinister, an ostrich with a horseshoe in its beak proper.
    Motto:Virtue mine honour.

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean, Bt, CVO, DL . macleanhistory.org .
    2. Burke's Peerage
    3. Book: McAndrew, Bruce A. . Scotland's Historic Heraldry . 2006 . . Illustrated . 978-1-84383-261-4. 477 .
    4. Web site: A Closer Look at West Highland Heraldry: Page 3 The MacLeans . Campbell of Airds, Alastair . Alastair Campbell of Airds . 21 November 2009 . .
    5. Book: Dewar, Peter Beauclerk . Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment . 2001 . . 19, illustrated . 978-0-9711966-0-5. 931 - 932.