 It was a member of this family who established the right to the chiefship of the Clan Crichton in 1980 and abandoned his additional surnames as required by the Lord Lyon King of Arms.In 1986 his kinsman, George Hubbard Makgill was recognised as the thirteenth Viscount of Oxfuird and chief of Clan Makgill.The current Chief of Clan Makgill is Ian Arthur Alexander Makgill, 14th Viscount of Oxfuird.