TRIVIA

The Lion Rampart

For Offical Use Only - however,
despite it being against the law to use otherwise,
it is flown and waved at sports events

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The Gillies Clan Tartans

The MacPherson Crest

Pronunciations:

Gillies...gil-ēz or gil-is? The "e" in Gillies is silent---someone once said that it is a Scottish thing---but that it never affects the spelling. That being said, the correct pronunciation is gil-is.



The Meaning Of Our Surname:

The name Gillies in Gaelic terms means ' Servant of Jesus'. The name has been recorded since the early twelfth century and was mainly a surname from the thirteenth century onwards. The Gillies family were of immense talent in the nineteenth century when they began to flourish. Lord Gillies, Adam, was a judge and his brother a historiographer royal for Scotland. Margaret, their niece, was a painter and Sir William Gillies followed in the same footsteps and became a Scottish landscape painter, whose work is one of the best in Scotland today. It is now well known throughout Scotland and in some other parts of the world.