MacKinnon Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

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Blazons & Genealogy Notes

1) (Portswood Park, co. Hants, chief of the clan MacKinnon). (Scotland, borne by William Alexander Mackinnon, of Portwood-house, near Southampton, Hants, Esq. 1825). – Quarterly, 1st, vert a boar’s head couped, holding in the mouth a shin-bone ar.; 2nd, az. a tower triple-towered ar.; 3rd, or, a galley gu.; 4th, ar. a man’s arm couped below the wrist from the sinister ppr. grasping a cross crosslet fitchee sa. all within a bordure gu. Crest—A boar’s head erased holding in the mouth the shin-bone of a deer all ppr. Supporters—Dexter, a lion; sinister, a leopard, both ppr. Motto—Audentes fortuna juvat.
2) (Rev. John Mackinnon, of Kilmodan, 1802). – Ar. a dog in chase of a deer in full speed ppr. on ground in base vert, a bordure az. Crest, as the last.