MacLaren

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The tartan posted above (the one that looks very close to Black Watch with yellow and red stripes added) probably became attributed as the Grant hunting tartan during the Highland revival due to it being the tartan of the 1st Strathspey Regiment and perhaps the 97th Regiment of Foot as well. Both regiments were raised in the last decade of the 18th C. by Sir James Grant of Grant. All that aside, calling it "Grant Hunting Tartan" probably came from the Wilson's books rather than any common usage.

Although it has been postulated that one or other of these two Grant related regiments may have worn this sett, there is no evidence to support this. The fact that a piece of the 42nd tartan was found in a 97nd Knapsack points to their use of the standard Government sett.