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'Clan Gayre' is a twentieth-century creation rather than a historic Scottish clan. Robert Gayre (born George Robert Gair in Dublin in 1907, died 1996) set out a claim to the chieftaincy of a 'Clan Gayre' in a book of his own in 1947 and changed his surname to 'Gayre of Gayre and Nigg' in 1957; in 1975 the Glasgow Herald wrote that he had 'created a Scottish clan from scratch'. Gayre setts are held in the Scottish Register of Tartans, recorded from swatches supplied by the 'Captain of Clan Gayre' in 1981, and no Gayre chief appears on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs' list.
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View all Gayre productsGeorge Robert Gair is born in Dublin[1]
Gair is spelling his surname 'Gayre' at least as early as this year[1]
Gayre publishes 'Gayre's Booke', claiming a chiefly pedigree[1]
After his father's death, Gayre formally adopts 'Gayre of Gayre and Nigg'[1]
The Glasgow Herald writes that he 'created a Scottish clan from scratch'[1]
Gayre tartan swatches are received from the 'Captain of Clan Gayre', Edinburgh[4][2]
No. The Royal Anthropological Institute's biographical history wiki records that Robert Gayre (born George Robert Gair, 1907-1996) set out a claim to the chieftaincy of 'Clan Gayre' in a book of his own in 1947, and that the Glasgow Herald wrote on 14 June 1975 that he 'has been able to create a Scottish clan from scratch'. No Gayre chief appears on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs' list.
Born George Robert Gair in Dublin on 6 August 1907, he was an anthropologist and heraldist. He was spelling his surname 'Gayre' at least as early as 1943 and changed it to 'Gayre of Gayre and Nigg' in 1957, after his father's death. He died on 10 February 1996.
No. The Royal Anthropological Institute's biographical history wiki records that the father he claimed was the son of the painter William Gillies Gair (1842-1906) was in fact the illegitimate son of the painter's sister Jessie Gair, and it describes the pedigrees he recorded in Ireland in 1950 and published from 1952 as bogus.
Yes. Gayre setts are held in the Scottish Register of Tartans, recorded before the Register's launch from swatches supplied by the 'Captain of Clan Gayre' in Edinburgh during 1981. The Register's note lists Hunting, Dress, Bodyguard and Arisaidh versions alongside the clan sett.
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