Legends derives the clan`s original name MacAuslan from Irish prince Anselan O Kyan, granted a settlement in Lennox by Malcolm ll. The Auselan first actually recorded was Stewart to a 13th-century Earl of Lennox, from whom he obtained the Loch-Lomondside district of Buchanan, which includes Ben Lamond. His son Gilbert was the first user of the Buchanan surname, as well as founder of the branches that took his own name. From Gilbert`s brothers Colman and Methlan, grandson Maurice and great-grandson Walter there derived other sept names, and the separated clan MacMillan. George Buchanan, a fore-runner (though in Latin) of Burns and Byron, the tutor of Montaigne, Mary Queen of Scots and James Vl. historian and Reformationist, ranks as the clan`s chief personality, though a U.S. President could be among others cited. Septs: COLMAN CORMACK COUSLAND DEWAR DOVE DOW GIBB GIBBON GIBSON GILBERT GILBERTSON HARPER HARPERSON LEAVY LENNIE LENNY MACALDONICH MACALMAN MACASLAN MACASLIN MACAUSELAN MACAUSLAN MACAUSLAND MACAUSLANE MACCALMAN MACCALMONT MACCAMMOND MACCASLAND MACCHRUITER MACCOLMAN MACCORMACK MACCUBBIN MACCUBING MACCUBIN MACGEORGE MACGIBBON MACGREUSICH MACGUBBIN MACINALLY MACINDEOR MACINDOE MACKINLAY MACKINLEY MACMASTER MACMAURICE MACMURCHIE MACMURCHY MACNEUR MACNUIR MACNUYER MACQUATTIE MACWATTIE MACWHIRTER MASTERS MASTERSON MORRICE MORRIS MORRISON MURCHIE MURCHISON RICHARDSON RISK RUSK RUSKIN SPITTAL SPITTEL WALTER WALTERS WASON WATERS WATSON WATT WATTERS WEIR YUILL YOOL YULE ZUILL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottish Surnames some showing Clan or Sept connection and approximate District or Century earliest known in Scotland. Information from the Revised Second Edition "Scots Kith and Kin". Sept: A Division of a Family, especially a Division of a Clan.