Livery coloured cockade on bonnet

**Nathan** · 15th April 14, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by creagdhubh

Well done, Nathan! I had thought about doing the same, but have never really gotten around to it. I suppose it doesn't matter all that much to me. My Chief, Sir William Alan Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie, TD, always has the black Hanoverian cockade on his (navy) Balmoral, despite his, as well as our collective (Macpherson) ancestry as staunch Jacobites and supporters of the Young Pretender during the '45.

Cluny sat as a High Court Judge in England for many years and is also a staunch Monarchist, so needless to say, I don't think he has ever been too concerned about wearing a white cockade in his bonnet whilst wearing Highland Dress. There are indeed several Macpherson clansmen that I know who do wear a white cockade, or a cockade in Azure and Or, the livery colours of our Chief.

Are those clansmen the hen's teeth Jock is referring to in Scotland or diaspora MacPhersons?

**Jock Scot** · 15th April 14, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Nathan

The white I'm looking at is lower than that it appears to be a white St. Andrew's cross behind his circlet.

Try as I might, I don't see what you see, but then, your eyes are younger than mine. Dammit!

**creagdhubh** · 15th April 14, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Nathan

Are those clansmen the hen's teeth Jock is referring to in Scotland or diaspora MacPhersons?

Both are indeed "diaspora Macphersons." John Charles resides in New York, and Ruaridh in Virginia.

**Jock Scot** · 15th April 14, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by Nathan

Are those clansmen the hen's teeth Jock is referring to in Scotland or diaspora MacPhersons?

I have been thinking about this and I have to say what Kyle sees is not what I see on a day to day basis. So I wonder if this is a diaspora thing on show at the Clan gathering?

Thank you Kyle.

**creagdhubh** · 15th April 14, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

I have been thinking about this and I have to say what Kyle sees is not what I see on a day to day basis. So I wonder if this is a diaspora thing on show at the Clan gathering?

I think it is, Jock. At least from my own personal experience and perspective in regards to the Clan Macpherson. I have never seen a Macpherson from Scotland, let alone the Highlands (Newtonmore and Kingussie), wearing anthing but a black cockade, or the matching, self-coloured cockade that comes standard with the lighter coloured bonnets such as Lovat blue, Lovat green, fawn, etc. Now, I'm certainly not saying that a cockade in white (Jacobite), the livery colours of your Chief, or perhaps in your own if you are armigerous, is incorrect, not in the slightest! All I am simply saying is that I have only seen it done by fellow Macphersons that are from America and not Scotland.