Clan Macqueen
| Clan Macqueen / Clan Revan | |||
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Crest: An heraldic tyger rampant Ermine holding an arrow, point downwards Argent pheoned Gules
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| Motto | Constant and faithful | ||
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| Region | Highland | ||
| Plant badge | boxwood or red whortleberry | ||
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| Clan Macqueen / Clan Revan has no chief, and is an armigerous clan | |||
| Last Chief | The Macqueen of Corrybrough | ||
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Clan Macqueen is a Highland Scottish clan and a member of the Chattan Confederation. The clan does not currently have a chief and is therefore considered an Armigerous clan.
The name Macqueen is sometimes also given as Macsween which means son of Sweyn. The Macqueens are allegedly of the same descent as the Clan Donald, having kinship with the High Kings of Ireland. The Macqueens are said to have provided a guard for a daughter of the chief of Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, who married a chief of the Clan Mackintosh. The Mackintoshes were also chiefs of the Chattan Confederation and so the Macqueens settled around Findhorn and became part of the confederation of Clan Chattan.
The Clan Macqueen was then known as the Clan Revan. The chiefs became the Lairds of Corrieborough and were highly regarded amongst the supporters of the MacDonalds.
The chief of the Clan Macdonald of Sleat said in 1778: "it does me great honour to have the sons of the Chieftains in the Regiment and as the MacQueens have been invariably attached to our family, to whom we believe we owe our existence, I am proud of the nomination".
The Macqueens or Macsweens were numerous in the Hebrides. The Reverend of Snizort, Donald Maqueen was of such intellect that he even impressed the doctor Samuel Johnson when he visited the Hebrides. The name Macqueen was not always highly regarded as Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, a notorious 18th-century judge was feared for his savage sentences and use of the death penalty.
The chief's family is believed to have moved to New Zealand and the clan became scattered throughout Scotland and the rest of the English-speaking world.
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