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3 Celts & Company • "MACARTHUR"

This early branch of the Campbell clan long claimed its chiefship. The Argyllshire MacArthurs of Bruce's time took their part against the MacDougalls of Lorn, and were richly rewarded out of the latter's territory, including the custodianship of Dunstaffnage Castle. Their own too-ambitious power was broken in 1427 when John MacArthur their chief forfeited to King James I all clan territory, and his own head to the block. The clan afterwards acquired footings at Strachur in Cowal and around Glendochart, whist a sept of them were hereditary pipers to the MacDonads of the Isles.

Septs: ARTHUR, ARTHURSON, CAMPBELL, DEWAR, MACCAIRTHER, MACCARTER, MACINDEOR

"MACARTHUR." Scots Kith and Kin and Illustrated Map Revised Second Edition. Edinburgh, SCOT: Clan House, c.1970. p.61. Print.

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