Clan Buchanan

Clan Buchanan
Clan Buchanan
Na Cananaich
	Crest: A hand coupee holding a ducal cap, or duke's cornet, proper, with two laurel branches wreathed surrounding the crest, disposed orleways proper.
Motto	Clarior hinc honos "The Brighter Hence the Honour" or "Henceforth forward the honour shall grow ever brighter"
War cry	Clar Innes
Profile
Region	Highlands
District	Stirling
Plant badge	Bilberry and Oak
Pipe music	"The Return of the Chief" by Richard Harris, 2016
Chief
	John Michael Baillie-Hamilton Buchanan of that Ilk
	The Buchanan
Seat	Cambusmore
Historic seat	Buchanan Auld House and Clairinch island
Septs of Clan Buchanan
	The Septs of Clan Buchanan derive from the first Auselan to use the surname Buchanan, Gilbert, whose father had obtained the Buchanan lands, and his brothers Colman and Methlan, grandson Maurice, and great-grandson Walter. For names spelled with Mac also read as Mc ; Bohanan, Bohanon, Bohannan, Bohannon, Buchannan, Buchannon, Buchanon, Buxton, Colman, Cormack, Cousland, Dewar, Dove, Dow, Dowe, Gibb, Gibbon, Gibson, Gilbert, Gilbertson, Harper, Harperson, Leavy, Lennie, Lenny, MacAldonich, MacAlman, MacAslan, MacAslin, MacAuselan, MacAuslan, MacAusland, MacAuslane, MacAlman, MacAlmont, MacAmmond, MacAsland, MacChruiter, MacColman, MacCormack, MacCubbin, MacCubbing, MacCubin, MacGeorge, MacGibbon, MacGreuisich, MacGubbin, MacInally, MacIndeor, MacIndoe, MacKinlay, MacKinley, MacMaster, MacMaurice, MacMurchie, MacMurchy, MacNeur, MacNuir, MacNuyer, MacQuattie, MacWattie, MacWherter, MacWhirter, Masters, Masterson, MacCaslin, Morrice, Morris, Morrison, Murchie, Murchison, Richardson, Risk, Rusk, Ruskin, Spittal, Spittel, Walter, Walters, Wason, Waters, Watson, Watt, Watters, Weir, Yuill, Yool, Yule, Youll, Zuill.; Asterisked (*) sept names are sourced from Scots Kith & Kin. 1900. Edinburgh: Albyn Press, Ltd. for Clan House, Lindsay & Co. Ltd., s.d. (c1960, reprint of 1900 first edition). 94 pp. + fold-out map.
Clan branches
	Auchneven, Leny, Arnprior, Spittall, and Auchmar
Allied clans
	Clan Campbell; Clan Graham
Rival clans
	Clan MacLaren

Clan Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Na Cananaich [nə ˈkʰanənɪç]) is a Highlands Scottish Clan whose origins are said to lie in the 1225 grant of lands on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond to clergyman Sir Absalon of Buchanan by the Earl of Lennox.