Chief and Arms
- The Chief of Clan Gordon is Granville Charles Gomer Gordon, 13th Marquess of Huntly, (Earl of Huntly?), Earl of Enzie, Earl of Aboyne, Lord Gordon of Badenoch, Lord Gordon of Strathavon and Glenlivet, Baron Meldrum of Morven.
- The Chief of Clan Gordon is known as: The Cock o' the North.
- Chief's Arms: Quarterly, 1st Azure, three boars’ heads couped Or, Proper langued Gules (for Gordon), 2nd, Or three lions heads erased Gules langued Azure (for Lordship of Badenoch), 3rd, Or, 3 crescents within a Royal Tressure, flory counter flory, Gules (for Seton), 4th, Azure three fraises Argent (for Fraser, acquisition of the Aboyne lands)
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