# MacTaggart

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{{Infobox surname
| name          = MacTaggart
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| pronunciation = 
| meaning       = "son of the priest"
| region        = [Scotland](/source/Scotland), [Ulster](/source/Ulster)
| language      = [Gaelic](/source/Scottish_Gaelic)
| variant       = [Taggart](/source/Taggart_(surname)), [McTaggart](/source/McTaggart)
| footnotes     = Frequency Comparisons (McTaggart)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/mctaggart |title=MaTaggart Surname Meaning and Distribution |publisher=forebears.co.uk}} Retrieved 21 January 2014</ref>
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'''MacTaggart''' is a surname of [Scottish](/source/Scotland) or [Ultonian](/source/Ulster) origin. It is an  [Anglicisation](/source/Anglicisation) of the [Scottish Gaelic](/source/Scottish_Gaelic_language) ''Mac an t-Sagairt'', meaning "son of the priest"<ref>"Marriage by members of the clergy was prohibited after the 12th century, but was frequently practised nevertheless" ([http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Taggart-family-history.ashx Taggart family history).]</ref> Also having the forms '''[McTaggart](/source/McTaggart)''' and [Taggart](/source/Taggart_(surname)).

==People with the surname ''MacTaggart''==

*[Fearchar mac an t-sagairt](/source/Fearchar%2C_Earl_of_Ross) (anglicised as  ''Farquhar MacTaggart'') 13th century Earl of Ross
*[Fiona Mactaggart](/source/Fiona_Mactaggart)
*[Gerry MacTaggart](/source/Gerry_MacTaggart)
*[Ivan Mactaggart](/source/Ivan_Mactaggart)
*[James MacTaggart](/source/James_MacTaggart)
*[John Mactaggart (disambiguation)](/source/John_Mactaggart_(disambiguation))
*[Sandy Mactaggart](/source/Sandy_Mactaggart)
*[William MacTaggart](/source/William_MacTaggart)

==Other==
*[Mactaggart baronets](/source/Mactaggart_baronets)
*[MacTaggart-Stewart baronets](/source/MacTaggart-Stewart_baronets)
**[Mark MacTaggart-Stewart](/source/Mark_MacTaggart-Stewart)
*[Mactaggart, Edmonton](/source/Mactaggart%2C_Edmonton), Alberta, Canada
*[Mactaggarts Woolstore](/source/Mactaggarts_Woolstore), Brisbane, Australia

==See also==
* [Moira MacTaggert](/source/Moira_MacTaggert), comic book character
* [McTaggart](/source/McTaggart)
* [Taggart (surname)](/source/Taggart_(surname))

==References==
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{{surname|MacTaggart}}

Category:Surnames of Ulster-Scottish origin

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