Clan Dewar Collection

Clan Dewar's name derives from the Gaelic 'deoradh,' meaning pilgrim or relic-keeper, and the family's earliest documented role was as hereditary custodians of Celtic church relics -- most famously the Dewar Coigerachs, keepers of St Fillan's crozier, which tradition says was carried at Bannockburn in 1314 in support of Robert the Bruce; the relic is now held in the National Museum of Scotland.…