(George) Robert Gair (6 August 1907[1] – 10 February 1996), who later assumed the surname Gayre of Gayre and Nigg, was a Scottish anthropologist who founded Mankind Quarterly, a peer-reviewed academic journal which has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment".[2] An authority on heraldry, he also founded The Armorial, and published a number of books on this subject.[3] He achieved notoriety for claiming to be the Chief of "Clan Gayre" and "Clan Gayre and Nigg", it being subsequently found that such a "clan" had never existed; per the Glasgow Herald, Gayre created "a Scottish clan from scratch, providing it with traditions, rituals, precedences and privileges". Further, not only did he not have legitimate male-line Gair descent (his father being the illegitimate child of a working-class woman of the name of Gair), but he had falsified a pedigree, given to Burke's Peerage among others, connecting his ancestor to a minor (not chiefly) family of the name resident at Nigg.[4] Many biographical details, such as ranks, degrees, and titles he claimed, are not independently verifiable, deriving from his own writings.[5]
^St. Martin's Press Staff (2001). Who Was Who 1996–2000 Volume X: A Companion to WHO'S WHO – Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died During the Period 1996–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-29366-6. Some sources give 1905 as birth year.
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^Billig, Michael (2006) [2004]. "Gayre [formerly Gair], George Robert (1907–1996)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75511. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1531
^Camp, Anthony (December 2017). "George Gair (or Sutherland) alias Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg". Genealogists' Magazine. 32 (8): 324–328..
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