Clan Bethune Crest badge Crest: An otter’s head erased argent.[1] Motto: De bonnaire.[2] Profile Region Lowlands District Fife and Angus.[3] Gaelic name Macbheatha.[4]

Chief Clan Bethune has no chief, and is an armigerous clan Arms of the last Chief of Clan Bethune Last Chief: The Bethune of Balfour Historic seat Balfour in Fife.[5]

Clan Bethune may have its origins from the French city of Béthune,^[6] but another possibility is that the name is an Anglicization of the Gaelic name Macbheatha.^[7] Clan Bethune is a small armigerous clan, and in Scotland, but surviving in America under the name "Clan MacBeth".^[8]

It is thought that the Bethunes came from Normandy with William the Conqueror in 1066.^[9]

Relationship, if any, to Macbeth of Scotland (d.1057) is unclear.^[10] MacBeth is possibly the Anglicized surname Beaton, though the Scottish origin of the Beatons of Skye may be semi-legendary.^[11][12] As a clan they were particularly associated with the trade of medicine, and hereditary physicians to the Chief of the Clan Macdonald. No less than seventy-six physicians called MacBeth or Beaton are found practising medicine in the Gaidhealtachd between 1300 and 1700.^[13] According to Black^[14] Bethune was confused with Beaton in the sixteenth century and Beaton was merged in English from Macbeth and Bethune.^[15] Two "Beaton" families were hereditary doctors practicing in the in Mull and Sky.^[16] Those on Mull were doctors to Clan Maclean and later Clan Fraser of Lovat, they seemed to have eventually been known as Beaton.^[17] Also according to Black, the other Beaton family of hereditary doctors, those of Sky, were Bethunes, descended from the Bethunes in Fife, the Bethunes of Balfour.^[18] This group were descended from the 5th Bethune of Balfour and settled Sky in the sixteenth century.^[19]

The clan Crest as borne by the "Clan MacBeth" Society of North America blazon is a wyvern "holding in the dexter claw a sword in pale proper, the hilt entwined with two serpents argent and vert". The motto is Conjuncta virtuti fortuna.^[20]

The official^[21] Clan Bethune Scottish crest badge as recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms incorporates the last chief's crest: An otter’s head erased Argent with his motto De bonnaire (Gracious).^[22]

Arms of the last clan chief, The Bethune of Balfour: Quarterly, 1st & 4th, Azure, a fess between three mascles Or (Bethune); 2nd & 3rd, Argent, on a chevron Sable, an otter’s head erased of the First.^[23] These arms are now held by the Earls of Lindsay^[24] whose surname is Lindesay-Bethune.

Other uses[link]

• SS Clan Macbeth^[25]

See also[link]

House of Bethune

External links[link]

• Clan Macbeth
• The Clan MacBeth Pipe Band, Groningen, The Netherlands

References[link]

Don Robertson (born Donald Irwin Robertson, December 5, 1922, Beijing, China) was an American songwriter and pianist, mostly in the country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956. The track reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year.^[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.^[2]

Although contracted to Capitol at the time of his biggest selling hit single, Robertson subsequently signed a recording contract with RCA Victor. He composed or co-composed with Hal Blair, many hits for other musicians, including Elvis Presley who recorded over a dozen of Robertson's songs, five of which appeared in Presley's numerous films.^[2]

Best known published songs[link]

• "Anything That's Part of You" (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger" (with Doris Clement and John Crutchfield)
• "Born to Be with You"
• "Hummingbird"
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore" (with Walter E. Rollins), (performed by Hank Snow)
• "I Love You More and More Every Day"
• "I Met Her Today" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "I'm Counting on You" (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "I Really Don't Want to Know" (with Howard Barnes)
• "Love Me Tonight" (performed by Elvis Presley)
• "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Hank Snow)
• "No More" (based on the song "La Paloma", co-written with Hal Blair, performed by Elvis Presley and Dean Martin)
• "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Hank Locklin)
• "Ringo" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Lorne Greene)
• "Stand In" (with Hal Blair), (performed by Don Robertson himself and Jim Reeves)
• "There's Always Me" (performed by Elvis Presley and Jim Reeves)
• "You're Free to Go" (with Lou Herscher)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Don Robertson site
• Nashville Songwriters' Foundation Biography of Don Robertson