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 John
Ruaridh Grant Mackenzie: Viscount Tarbat,
Baron Castlehaven, Baron MacLeod, of Castle Leod;
Earl
UK
created 1861; recognised by Lord Lyon as Chief
of Clan Mackenzie; discontinued the use of the
forename and surname of Blunt 1962; b.
12 June 1948; son of 4th Earl of Cromartie, MC,
TD and Olga (d. 1996), daughter of the late Stuart
Laurence; succeeded his father, 1989;
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MIExpE:
explosives engineer
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Educated:
Rannoch School, Perthshire, and Strathclyde
University
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Member:
Council, Mountaineering Council of Scotland,
1995-
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Author:
Author of Selected Climbs in Skye,
1982; articles in Classic Rock Climbs
and Cold Climbs
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Recreations:
mountaineering, art, astronomy, geology.
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Clubs:
Army and Navy; Scottish Mountaineering.
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Sons:
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Heir:
his son the Viscount Tarbat, quod vide.
Blazon of Arms: Quarterly
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 1st:
a mountain azure in flames proper (MacLeod
of Lewis)
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2nd:
a buck's head cabossed or (Mackenzie)
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3rd:
gules three legs of a man armed proper, conjoined
in the centre at the upper part of two of
the thighs, flexed in triangle, garnished
and spurred, or (Isle of Man)
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4th:
argent, on a pale sable an Imperial Crown
proper, within a double treasure flowered
and counter-flowered with fleur-de-lis gules
(Erskine of Innerteall).
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Crest:
The sun in his splendour.
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Supporters:
Dexter, a wild man wreathed about the
loins with Oak, holding a club resting on
the exterior shoulder proper; sinister,
a greyhound argent, collared gules.
Address: The Earl of Cromartie,
Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, Scotland, IV14 9AA
See the Arms of the Clan
Mackenzie Society,
PDF file
[Sources: Extracted
from Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1995 and Who's who 1998, 150th
edition] |
