MacGillivray served as Commander for five years before dying in 1994, and to this day the clan remains without a Chief, but does once again have a Commander to lead it. Lord Lyon, not satisfied with the proofs MacGillivray submitted, denied him status of chief, but commissioned him as commander of the clan. MacGillivray, later petitioned Lord Lyon King of Arms three times between 19 to be recognised as chief. A Dr Angus MacGillivary tried to claim the chieftainship but was unable to prove his lineage-although he was awarded a variation of the MacGillivray coat of arms in 1914. John Farquhar MacGillivray was chief for 32 years when he died in 1942 without an heir, and the last chief of clan MacGillivray. The chiefship then passed to a cousin of his, John Farquhar MacGillivray, who lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. John William MacGillivray, who had to sell his estate and died without an heir in 1914. The last chief to live at Dunmaglass was the 13th laird, Capt. Iain MacGillivray receiving his commission as commander from the Lord Lyon Dr Joseph Morrow QC
After Culloden, many MacGillivrays emigrated across the Atlantic, where many of them were successful, particularly as traders. A graveyard at Dunlichity commemorates the many MacGillivrays who fell in the battle. Alexander MacGillivray was killed leading his clan at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 along with many of his followers. During the 1745 rising, the chief of Mackintoshes and clan Chattan was however a serving officer in the Black Watch regiment of the British Army, but his wife, Lady Anne Mackintosh (née Farquharson), rallied the Chattan Confederation in support of the Jacobites and placed chief Alexander MacGillivray in command of the clan Chattan regiment. 18th century & Jacobite risings Īlong with most of the other clans of the Chattan Confederation, the MacGillivrays were staunch Jacobites in both the Jacobite rising of 1715 and the Jacobite rising of 1745. The MacGillivrays were persecuted by their Calvinist and Presbyterian neighbors owing to their support of Episcopal polity of the church. In 1609, there was a great gathering of the Chattan Confederation, at which loyalties were given to the Mackintosh chief, and the haill kin and race of MacGillivray was represented by Malcolm MacGillivray of Dalcrombie and Duncan MacGillivray of Dunmaglass. The MacGillivray clan was first accurately recorded in Dunmaglass in 1549. McIan from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands published in 1845. A romanticised Victorian-era illustration of a MacGillivray clansman by R.
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