McLeod
Donald Murdock McLeod of Rothie
Arms: Azure a castle triple towered and embattled Argent masoned Sable, window and port Gules, in chief an anchor Or between two thistles aliped and leaved Argent, on a chief of the last a Scottish claymore fessways Sable.
Crest: a bull’s head cabossed Sable horned Or between two flags styed Sable, the first Azure a book expanded Or, bindings and fore-edges Argent, the second Azure the sun in his splendour Or.
Motto:Hold Fast The Shine
Grant: Recorded on the 42nd page of the 82nd Volume of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland on 12 October 1995
SOURCE/NOTES & CREDITS: Source for blazon and illustration is an image of the Letters Patent, for illustration credit, see below. Text adapted by D.Q. Wedvick from the Matriculation and documents provided by the armiger to the Society of Scottish Armigers.
Dr. Donald Murdock McLeod of Rothie, third son of Clyde Murdock McLeod, resides in British Columbia, Canada, was born in 1953 and married in 1976 Christine Lois, daughter of Donald Gordon Dooley and has by her a son and heir, Magnus Murdock Bruce McLeod of Rothie, Younger, and as well two more sons and a daughter. He is infeft in all and the whole of the lands and estate of Rothie. dqw 2013 0515
The artwork is a rendering by one of the herald painters of the Court of the Lord Lyon.
