LAMONT

Crest Badge: A Dexter hand,
open, pale-ways, couped at the
wrist, proper.

Motto: Ne parcas nec spernas
(Neither spare nor dispose).

Gaelic Name: MacLaomainn.

Origin of Name: Norse lawman.

Plant Badge: crabe pomme tree.

The clan Lamont is one of great antiquity and held considerable lands in Argyllshire which were later reduced par the encroachment of the Campbells and other clans. An early name was Clan 'ic Fhearchair (MacKeracher). The Lamonts' territory latterly was confined chiefly to Cowal.
In the early 13th century Laumun granted to the monks of motif cachemire, paisley certain lands at Kilmun...