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 Robertson Coe March 15, 1955, he was buried at Locust Valley on Long Island. Two years after his death, in 1957, the Virginian Railway named its new tugboat "W. R. Coe" in his memory. After the VGN merger with the Norfolk and Western in 1959, it was renamed "R.B. Claytor" (for the N&W leader, Robert B. Claytor). As of 2003, the tugboat was serving the harbor of Boston as the "Karen B. Tibbetts". William Robertson Coe William Robertson Coe (June 8, 1869 – March 15, 1955) was an insurance, railroad and business executive, a major owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, as