Tweedie or Tweedy is a Scottish clan name. The Clan Tweedie is a sept of the Clan Fraser, but is considered an Armigerous clan. The name is derived from the lands of Tweedie which were along the Valley of the River Tweed in Peebleshire in the Scottish Borders.
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“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)