Publications of the Clan Lindsay Society - Electric Scotland

WiotcQ ant) Commcnte.
The Clan Tartan.
The late Captain Hugh Antrobus was a zealous enquirer
along certain lines of the Clau history, and was an enthusiastic
advocate of the Clan's right to full status among the other
Scottish clans. He was particularly interested in the history of
the tartan and in the question wliy this did not become the
regimental tartan of the Black Watch when that regiment was
first embodied under the command of the Earl of Crawford-
Lindsay. From among the notes which he sent to the editor
he would no doubt have desired that the following extracts
should be at the service of anyone who may desire to continue
the enquiry :
Extract from a Letter by Captain J. STEWART,
The Black Watch.
"Capt. Antrobus may be endeavouring to tiud out whether
Lord Crawfurd had anythin"^ to do with the selection of the
Black Watch tartan, and if so I can give a definite opinion.
"First of all, Stewart of Garth is in my opinion the only
thoroughly reliable historian of all pertaining to the domestic
and military conditions of the Highlands during the 18th and
and early part of the 19th centuries. He tuok a very great
interest in these subjects and especially in our Regiment, in
which he served for a considerable period, and from the older
oflBcers and men of which he must have gained a unique know-
ledge of its birth and early history. I therefore take his
statements as being absolutely correct unless disproved by
original documents; and so have no reason to doubt that his