Scottish clan Clan Grant. During the Wars of Scottish Independence, feudal tenures were introduced by Robert the Bruce that harnessed and controlled the prowess of clans by the award of charters for land in order to gain support in the national cause against the English. For example, the Clan MacDonald were elevated above the Clan MacDougall, two clans who shared a common descent from a great Norse-Gaelic warlord named Somerled of the 12th century. Clanship was thus not only a strong tie of local kinship but also of feudalism to the Scottish Crown. It is this feudal component, reinforced by Scots law,
William Rogers Coe William Rogers Coe William "Bill" Rogers Coe (1901-1971) was an American railway businessman. William Rogers Coe was born in 1901. He was the first son of William Robertson Coe and Mai Huttleston Rogers Coe. He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He then attended Princeton University and the United States Naval Academy. He followed his father into the railway business. Eventually, he became Vice-President and Treasurer of the Virginian Railway Company, the railroad that his grandfather, Henry Huttleston Rogers had built. He married Clover Simonton in 1923, and they had two sons, William Robertson Coe II