MACKAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Governor General of Australia

Governor General of Australia

The Independent Companies wore a dark blue

This is the correct version of the asymmetrical Malcolm as shown by the woven sample in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'

the 42nd and the Cameron Highlanders

are unreliable

MACKAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Governor General of AustraliaThe pattern shows a marked similarity to the Gunn tartan in all but colour, suggesting a territorial origin for both. Recently historians of Scottish dress have tended to stress the geographical sources, rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans. A sample was signed and sealed by the Chief for Highland Society of London in 1816. The sett is known as the 'Green' Mackay.