Editing Clan Ross (section)

===17th century and Civil War===

George 10th of Balnagowan was educated at St Andrew's University, the first Ross chief to receive university education.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.19.20">MacKinnon, Donald. (1957). pp. 19–20.</ref> However, he became as notorious as his father and died in 1615.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.19.20"/> His son David 11th of Balnagowan was a more peace- and law-abiding chief than his father and grandfather.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.19.20"/> David died in 1632 and his son, also called David, succeeded him.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.19.20"/>

David Ross 12th of Balnagowan signed the National Covenant at [[Inverness]] on 26 April 1638.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.20">MacKinnon, Donald. (1957). pp. 20.</ref> He later joined the royalists for a short time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]] at the [[Battle of Carbisdale]] in 1650.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.20"/> The Clan Ross and [[Clan Munro]] fought on the side of the Scottish Government, then led by the Duke of Argyll. They  defeated the royalist army of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.20"/> David Ross, 12th of Balnagowan later led some of the clan at the [[Battle of Worcester]] on 3 September 1651 where he was captured and imprisoned at the [[Tower of London]].<ref name="Mackinnon.p.22">MacKinnon, Donald. (1957). pp. 22.</ref> He is said to have died there in 1653 and been buried in Westminster.<ref name="Mackinnon.p.22"/>

In 1689, 100 men of the Clan Ross occupied [[Castle Leod]] to watch for movements of the Jacobite Mackenzies.