RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Thomson is the anglicised form

Thomson is the anglicised form of the name MacTavish

Status: ON WEAVE (due to be completed June 13th 2026)

of special interest or antiquity

a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections

It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan

RUTHVEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Thomson is the anglicised formThe name Ruthven comes from the old Barony of Ruthven in Angus. Ruthvens were Earls of Gowrie at the time of James VI of Scotland. More recently Sir Alexander Hore Ruthven of Freeland, Governor General of Australia, was created Earl of Gowrie in 1945. The Ruthven tartan was not named until the publication of the book known as the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842.