Clan Boyd

Boyd
Buidhe[1]
Crest: A dexter hand erect and pale having the outer fingers bowed inwards[1]
MottoConfido (I trust)[1]
Profile
RegionLowlands
DistrictAyrshire
Plant badgeLaurel leaves[1]
Boyd no longer has a chief, and is an armigerous clan
SeatKilmarnock
Historic seatDean Castle, Ayrshire
Last ChiefAlastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock
Died19 March 2009
Septs of Boyd
Air, Aird, Assloss, Auchinloss, Ayr, Ayrd, Bankhead, Blair, Bod, Boddagh, Bodha, Boid, Boit, Boite, Borland, Bowie, Boy, Boyd, Boyde, Boydston, Boyed, Boyman, Boyte, Braland, Bribane, Brown, Buidhe, Buie, Burn, Bute, Cassy, Chrystal, Conn, Coon, Coonie, Corshill, Cosh, Crawford, Crystal, Dick, Faerie, Faery, Fairlie, Fairly, Farie, Farnly, Faul, Faulds, Fauls, Fenwick, Foulterton, Fullarton, Fullerton, Fullton, Gammell, Gemmill, George, Gorman, Gurman, Haire, Hare, Harshaw, Langmoore, Lines, Longmuir, Lynn, MacCosh, MacGillabuidhe, MacGiollabuidhe, MacLorg, MacLurg, Moore, Muir, O'Boyd, Osborne, Parris, Pitco, Raeburn, Rayburn, Reburn, Reyburn, Rigg, Riggs, Speirs, Spiers, Spires, Starret, Steen, Stein, Stiret, Tannahill, Tannock, Templeton, Underwood, Vasser, Woodbourne, Woodburn[2]
Clan branches
Boyd Barons of Kilmarnock (current chiefs)
Lords Boyd and Earls of Kilmarnock (historic chiefs)
Boyd of Merton
Boyd of Penkill
Boyd of Pitcon
Boyd of Trochrig
Allied clans
Rival clans

Clan Boyd is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands and is recognized as such by the Lord Lyon King of Arms.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d Clan Boyd Profile scotclans.com. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ^ Clan Boyd Septs Archived 3 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine clanboyd.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  3. ^ Way, George of Plean; Squire, Romilly of Rubislaw (1994). Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. Glasgow: HarperCollins (for the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-00-470547-5.