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A loosely Black Watch-based tartan in two hues of red (crimson and scarlet) with thin yellow and light-blue over-checks
The McCandlish red tartan, designed in 1992

McCandlish is Scottish surname (and rarely also a given name), derived from Scottish Gaelic mac Cuindlis (among other spellings, including mac Cuindilis and mac Cuindlaes), meaning 'son of Cuindlis', an Old Irish name of uncertain meaning.[1] Some spelling variants include McAndlish, McCanalish, McCandelich, McCandelish, McCandish, McCandlash, McCandleis, and McCandleish, among others. The name is closely related to McCandless (from the same derivation), found in Scotland and especially the north of Ireland (Ulster).[2][3] McCandlish has also sometimes historically been attested in Northern Ireland.[4] It is etymologically but probably not familially related to west Irish Ó Cuindlis, 'descendant of Cuindlis'.[2][5][6] The earliest form of the given name can be traced back to an abbot from the 8th century called Cuindles.[7][8][5]

Surname

  • Benjamin McCandlish (1886–1975), United States Navy flag officer; 36th naval governor of Guam
  • Edward Gerstell McCandlish (1887–1946), American illustrator, mapmaker, toymaker, and author of the Bunny Tots series of children's books (1920s); perhaps best known for illustrating Laboulaye's Fairy Book
  • John Edward Chalmers McCandlish CB CBE (1901–1974), British Army major-general
  • John MacGregor McCandlish (1821–1901), Scottish lawyer; first president of the Faculty of Actuaries
  • Mackey McCandlish, animator and co-creator of Blahbalicious
  • Margherita McCandlish née Wood (1892–1954), former first lady of Guam, wife of Benjamin
  • William McCandlish, British dog breeder (see List of Chairmen of the Kennel Club)

Given name

See also

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  • Candlish, a derived Scottish surname
  • McCandless (surname), a more common Scots-Irish form of the name, primarily found in the north of Ireland
  • Ó Cuindlis, a west Irish surname dating to the 14th century; anglicized as Conlisk, Cundlish, Quinlist, and several other variants

References

  1. ^ Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History. New York Public Library. pp. 131, 464.
  2. ^ a b MacLysaght, Edward (1997) [1957]. The Surnames of Ireland (6th ed.). Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 35, 36, 252.
  3. ^ "Surname Database: McCandless Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  4. ^ "1901/1911 Census, Ireland / Search: McCandlish". Search Census. National Archives of Ireland. 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023. The data can be visualized with maps provided here: Griffin, Barry (2023). "MACCANDLISH Surname Maps of Ireland". Irish Surname Maps for the 1901 and 1911 Census of Ireland. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Irish names and surnames: Ó Cuindlis".
  6. ^ Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. vol. 3, pp. 1119, 1121; vol. 5, pp. 2102. ISBN 9781851094400.
  7. ^ Ryan, John (1938). The Abbatial Succession at Clonmacnoise. Feil-Sgribhinn Eoin Mhic Neill. p. 499.
  8. ^ Woulfe, Patrick (1923). "Mac Cuindilis - Irish Names and Surnames". LibraryIreland.com. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
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