288:, at which Macrae-Gilstrap was challenged as to his right to appear, since he was not the most senior representative of his own family. He responded that "I am here to protect myself and to say that I will not acknowledge the Inverinate branch in any shape or form as the Chief of the Clan MacRae and as my Chief." He continued by maintaining that "all the MacRae families are more or less on an equality", and argued that the MacRaes were a clan "which had no chief other than Seaforth". He also denied the seniority of the Inverinate family despite apparently conceding their seniority on a previous occasion, whereby he was accused by Sir Colin's counsel of picking and choosing his evidence.
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Farquhar MacRae, to clear the site. He was engaged during the First World War, but returning to
Kintail in 1919 he found Farquhar MacRae making preparations for a full restoration of the castle. Farquhar "claimed to have had a dream in which he saw, in the most vivid detail, exactly the way the castle originally looked". MacRae-Gilstrap agreed to go ahead with the reconstruction, and commissioned architect
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and philanthropist. On Sir
William's death in 1896, under the terms of his will, John MacRae took the additional surname of Gilstrap and assumed a senior role in the family firm of Gilstrap, Earp & Co., then the largest malt-producing business in Britain. In 1897, the MacRae-Gilstraps were living
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to prepare plans. The castle was fully rebuilt between the years 1920 and 1932. In the latter year the bridge to the mainland was completed, and a formal opening ceremony was held on 22 July 1932. The total cost of the restoration was around £250,000, largely funded by the
Gilstrap inheritance.
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In 1912 MacRae-Gilstrap purchased Eilean Donan Castle from Sir Keith Fraser of
Inverinate, becoming the first MacRae for many years to hold land in the traditional clan territory of Kintail. Initially MacRae-Gilstrap intended to preserve the ruins as they were and employed a local stonemason,
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of MacRae, and stating that his family had long been unofficially acknowledged as chiefs. John MacRae-Gilstrap had previously placed a "caveat" with the Lord Lyon, requesting that "should any application be presented in the Court of The Lord Lyon for matriculation of arms as Chief of The Clan
246:, the reputed progenitor of the Clan MacRae, the other principal families being MacRae of Inverinate, MacRae of Torlysich, and the Clann Ian Charrich, who claim descent from an even earlier ancestor.
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as constables. The last constable, Rev. Farquhar MacRae who was removed in 1651, was an ancestor of John MacRae-Gilstrap. During the failed
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Archaeological Evaluation: Eilean Donan Castle, Ross-shire (part 1)
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An incident at the Battle of Tamai, eastern Sudan, March 13, 1884
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661:. Clan Macrae Society of North America. Archived from
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588:"The 1909 Petition of Sir Colin Macrae of Inverinate"
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as a lieutenant. The following year he was posted to
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Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd. (February 2009).
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of the clan. The MacRaes were closely allied to the
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633:"Sgurr Uaran Special Edition: Eilean Donan Castle"
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48:where his father had served as a surgeon with the
437:"Descendants of William (Gilstrap) Gelsthorpe"
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529:Macrae (1910), pp. vii–viii
470:. Oxford University Press.
299:Restoration of Eilean Donan
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814:. Dingwall: George Souter.
811:History of the Clan Macrae
746:"Conchra Charitable Trust"
622:Gifford (1992), pp.531–533
388:, Scots Football Worldwide
251:History of the Clan MacRae
793:. Yale University Press.
791:The Buildings of Scotland
462:Clark, Christine (2004).
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181:Marriage to the Gilstraps
36:in the west of Scotland.
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230:Chiefship of Clan Macrae
175:Royal Company of Archers
54:Indian Rebellion of 1857
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373:England Football Online
321:Jacobite rising of 1719
152:mentioned in despatches
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557:"Clan without a Chief"
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356:References
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369:"Profile"
270:Lord Lyon
240:Loch Long
96:in 1715.
90:Jacobites
70:Buteshire
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329:Lochalsh
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