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- Professor Sellar writes: "Principal P.C. Campbell in his Account of the Clan Iver in 1837 was of the view that the MacIvers were not originally Campbells. The proofs he adduces, however, are quite unconvincing. There can be no doubt that by the fourteenth century the MacIvers were already closely associated with the family in Argyll. The Malcolm MacIver who appears in Balliol's sheriffdom of Lorne in 1293 may be of this family. Also appearing in the same record, in Lorne, are Dugald of Craignish and Colin Campbell; and, in Kintyre, Duncan Dubh and Thomas Campbell, conceivably the MacTavish eponym."
It is believed that this Malcolm is the founder of Clan Iver (Iverach)
http://www.tartans.com writes:
In the 13th century Iver Crom possessed some lands in Argyllshire and it is claimed he conquered the lands of Cowal for King Alexander II. He possessed the lands of Asknish, Lergachonzie and Glassary in Cowal. His son or grandson, Malcolm MacIver had lands in 1292 and about 1500 Iver MacIver of Lergachonzie was chief of the clan. He had three sons; Duncan, Charles and Iver Ban. A descendant of Charles was chief about 1572 and was designated "of Asknish and Stronshiray". His son, Iver was forfeited in 1685 for his part in the rebellion by Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyll. After the Revolution in 1688 the 10th Earl restored the estates of the Clan Iver to Duncan, son of Iver, on the condition that he and the heirs of the family of MacIver should assume the name and bear the arms of Campbell. Sir Humphray Trafford Campbell who died in 1818 was the last male descendant of Duncan MacIver of Stronshiray. Other families of MacIvers assumed the name of Campbell including the MacIvers of Ardlarach who also adopted the name at about 1688, the MacIvers of Pennymore on Loch Fyne, the MacIvers of Glassary and the MacIvers of Ballochyle. The MacIvers in the Gairloch region descend from a MacIver from the Argyll area, some of the MacIvers of this area remained MacIvers while others changed their name to Campbell. A sept of MacIver Campbells were found in Glenlyon and about 1580 a number moved to Caithness (where they feuded with the Gunns) and to Lewis.
Elsewhere on the internet it states:
Prof Campbell in his "Hist of Clan MacIver", ignores the existence of Tavish Corr and Iver Croumb, the sons of Colin MacDuine, and uses their names to denote two brothers who lived about 1360 AD and whose ancestors had come from Glenlyon. These, he says, had followed Alexander the Second on his invasion of Argyll in 1221, and were rewarded by lands, which had previously belonged to some of the rebel chiefs (yet Wyntoun says, that these were given to "the lords of that land") and that from that Iver, the Clan MacIver of Asknish was descended, but gives no authority for a statement, so contrary to a universal tradition. Campbell of Kirnan in his life of Arch., Duke of Argyll, is equally astray, when he describes the sons of Colin MacDuine as the sons of Archibald of Lochawe in 1360, by a daughter of Suaine Ruaidh, Thane of Knapdale. Long before 1360, the Sweyne family was unknown to Scottish History. Sir Robert Douglas quoted by Princ. Campbell, says that Iver lived under Malcolm the Fourth, that is, between 1153 and 1165, and was the grandfather of Dovenald, whose son Iver Crom must have been born at least three generations later than the man who gave his name to the Clan. Who could this latter man have been if not Iver the brother of Tavish Corr?
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