SCOTT (RED) Prince of Wales 1950 acquired the name Mitchell Size:10 1950 acquired the name Mitchell when it was adopted by the U The Taylor tartan was designed in 1955 by two outstanding authorities on tartans: Miss Margaret MacDougall Earliest reference possibly 1829 in a letter from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to Sir Walter Scott in which he tells Scott that he had seen this tartan in a manuscript prepared for the brothers John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart Jamie Scarlett pointed out (April 2006) that it was interesting that the tartan for Rob Roy MacGregor's greatest publicist Scott seemed to owe its origins to the Clan Gregor tartan of 1819