| Clan Strange | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Dexter Dulce Quod Utile - 'That Which Is Useful Is Sweet [1] |
| Chief | |
 | |
| Major Timothy Strange of Balcaskie [1] | |
| Baron of Balcaskie [2] | |
Clan Strange, [3] also known as Clan Strang, [4] is a Lowland Scottish clan.
| Clan Strange | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Dexter Dulce Quod Utile - 'That Which Is Useful Is Sweet [1] |
| Chief | |
| | |
| Major Timothy Strange of Balcaskie [1] | |
| Baron of Balcaskie [2] | |
Clan Strange, [3] also known as Clan Strang, [4] is a Lowland Scottish clan.
The surname Strange is more often found as Strang. [3] It is probably derived from the Norman or French word etrange, which means foreign. [3] The Strang rendering is believed to derive from the Scots dialect for the word strong. [3]
In around 1255 Home le Estraunge was in the service of the Scottish king. [3] In around 1340 Thomas de Strang held land around Aberdeen. [3] In about 1362 John Strang married Cecilia, sister of Richard Anstruther of that Ilk and as part of the marriage settlement, Strang received some of the lands of Balcaskie. [3]
William Strang of Balcaskie is mentioned in around 1466 in deeds. [3] In 1482 John Strang of Balcaskie received a charter of confirmation for the lands of Ewingston. [3]
John Strang of Balcaskie was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. [3]
In 1615 John Strang of Balcaskie sold the estate and became a colonel in Cochrane's Scots Regiment. [3] Sir Robert Strange was descended from a younger son of the house of Balcaskie whose family had settled in Orkney at the time of the Scottish Reformation. [3] Strange was intended for a career in the law, but instead took ship on a man-of-war heading for the Mediterranean. [3] When he returned he took up the art of engraving. [3]
The same Sir Robert Strange was appointed to Charles Edward Stuart's Life Guard when Stuart's army entered Edinburgh in 1745. [3] Strange served in the Life Guard during the Jacobite rising of 1745 until after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. [3] After which he managed to escape for several months remaining as a fugitive in the Scottish Highlands. [3] He later returned to Edinburgh in obscurity. [3] He moved to London in 1751 where he began to receive critical acclaim for engraving several important historical prints. [3] He left to tour Italy in 1760 and died in 1792, being considered the father of the art of engraving historical prints. [3]
In February 1995 Major Timothy Strange of Balcaskie, Baron of Balcaskie was confirmed by Lord Lyon as Chief of the Clan Strange. [5]
Balcaskie in Fife was seat of John Strang who died at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, the property then passed to the Moncreiffs in 1615, then to Sir William Bruce in 1665 and then to the Anstruthers in 1698. Much of Strang's original interior of the building survives but it has since been altered and extended. [4]
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