BOWIE (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre the commander of British forces

the commander of British forces in North Britain authorised the formation of six independent companies of troops to police the Highlanders

There was thought of calling it the 'Ayr Tartan' but that was discarded in favour of the present name which more aptly celebrated the bicentenary of the poet's birth

The Independent Companies wore a dark blue

he grand expanse of Rannoch moor in Scotland inspires this tweed

It is claimed that in earlier times the Highland clergy wore the Highland dress and carried arms and that many attempts were made to prevent them wearing tartan and to force them to wear conventional ministerial habit

BOWIE (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre the commander of British forces