RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre a family tartan based on

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

The chief of the MacKintoshes is also chief of Clan Chattan

or MacDuffie held lands on the Isle of Colonsay until the mid seventeenth century but were later scattered by the clearances

It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan

RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre a family tartan based onThe 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.