Our Grant Cap Badge


Although the chiefs of Grant have arms recorded back into the sixteenth century, the first record of their crest came when the arms were registered between 1672 and 1678 – these were a burning hill, with the motto ‘stand sure’. This was still the case at the time of Nisbett’s System of Heraldry in the 1720s and the 1750 ‘A Brief Account of the Family of the Grants’, which also notes the addition motto of ‘Craig Elachie’, the rock of alarm, which is alluded to with the burning hill crest, being a beacon. In times of trouble a burning cross would be taken through the Grant lands so people knew to assemble. 


By 1796 Charles Grant’s Memoires Historiques, Genealogiques, Politiques, Militaries, etc, etc, de la Maison de Grant noted that the motto was Stand Sure *or* Stand Fast. The chiefly motto was ‘stand fast’ by the time of Alexander Deuchar’s The Crests and Mottos of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland (1817)


Bernard Burke’s General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (1884) includes the detail: ‘when drawn up in battle, the motto of the chief was ‘Stand Fast’ and the inferior chieftains re-echoes it to their troops as ‘stand firm’ ‘stand sure’. How true this statement is is unclear, as it’s not mentioned previously.


For more details on this clan, visit www.clangrant.org.uk


Our vintage Carrick version of the Grant crest, which dates to the 1970s. 


MKP 9 October 2025