Quote Originally Posted by Colonel MacNeal View Post
A member of an armigerous clan, or a non-armigerous clan, may also possess their own personal arms if granted/registered by a recognized heraldic authority.
True to a degree..normally an armiger who had a Scottish Grant of Arms and gave allegiance to a Chief would be allowed to display his own arms as head of his own particular family branch within the Clan.

If a Clan is Chiefless the Armiger(s) associated with the Clan would be the custodians of the Clan until a new Chief (Commander in some particular cases) could be found genealogical which would meet with the Lord Lyons approval.

If a Chief Could not be found genealogically and there was enough Armigers 8 (this at one time used to include non armigerous Land Owners) they could form a derbfine and propose a candidate to Lord Lyon as Clan Commander and after a period of time he would become Chief.

This would not include Armigers with Foreign Grants or Registrations.

This was Lord Lyon Blairs written view amended from before, however we have no idea what the New Lord Lyon David Sellar's view will be. Hopefully it would be along the same lines or all the work many of us have done over the years following the present criteria will go up in smoke!!