RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre A Baillie tartan is mentioned

A Baillie tartan is mentioned by Telford Dunbar in his 1962 'History of Highland Dress' when he states that it appeared in William Wilson's stock list of 1800

It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan

Thomson is the anglicised form of the name MacTavish

a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections

of special interest or antiquity

RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre A Baillie tartan is mentionedThe name Ruthven comes from the old Barony of Ruthven in Angus. Ruthvens were Earls of Gowrie at the time of James VI of Scotland. More recently Sir Alexander Hore Ruthven of Freeland, Governor General of Australia, was created Earl of Gowrie in 1945. The Ruthven tartan was not named until the publication of the book known as the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842.