Family - Clan Murray

Motto - Furth fortune

Blazon - A Demi-Man Wreathed About The Head And Loins Vert, Holding In His Dexter Hand A Dagger Arg., Hilt And Pommel Or, And In His Sinister A Key Ppr.

Source - Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.

Size approx. 55mm x 47mm

With good back pin.

Clan Murray is a Highland Scottish clan. The chief of the Clan Murray holds the title of Duke of Atholl. Their ancestors who established the family in Scotland in the 12th century were the Morays of Bothwell. In the 16th century descendants of the Morays of Bothwell, the Murrays of Tullibardine, secured the chiefship of the clan and were created Earls of Tullibardine in 1606.

The first Earl of Tullibardine married the heiress to the Stewart earldom of Atholl and Atholl therefore became a Murray earldom in 1626. The Murray Earl of Atholl was created Marquess of Atholl in 1676 and in 1703 it became a dukedom. The marquess of Tullibardine title has continued as a subsidiary title, being bestowed on elder sons of the chief until they succeed him as Duke of Atholl.