Skene

Skene

Clan Skene from Skene in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; an ancient Scottish family, supposed by some authorities to have descended from a younger son of Robertson, of Strowan; the last, George Skene, Esq., of that Ilk, died in 1825, having made a disposition of his estates in favour of his nephew, Lord Fife.

Arms: Gules, three skenes, or daggers, paleways in fess argent, hilted and pommelled or, on the point of each a wolf’s head couped of the third-”Some, “we quote Sir George Mackenzie, “derive their names as well as their arms from some considerable action, and this a second son of Struan Robertson, for killing a wolf in Stocket Forest, by a dirk in the king’s presence, got the name of Skene, which signifies a dirk in Irish, and three dirk points in pale for his arms.”

Crest: A dexter arm from the shoulder issuing out of a cloud, holding in the hand a garland proper.

Motto: Virtutis regia merces (A palace, the reward of bravery).

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