The reluctant new chief of Clan Arthur

From: The Scotsman | Date: February 7, 2002| Author: Gethin Chamberlain | Copyright information

AS MISSING persons cases go, the disappearance of the title of chief of the Clan Arthur is in a class of its own.

Last seen in India in the 1780s, the title vanished with the death of one Charles MacArthur of Tirivadich. Childless and with no obvious male heir, his death appeared to have consigned the hereditary chiefdom to history.

But now, an heir apparent has been found after a genealogist spent 15 years tracing the clan's family tree.

More than 220 years after the d...

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