17th and 18th centuriesWilliam Paterson was a founder of the Bank of England, but he is better-remembered as being the architect of the disastrous Darien scheme. The scheme was an attempt to establish a Scottish colony at the isthmus of Darien in Central America.A celebrated episode of the Paterson family was during the Jacobite rising of 1745 when Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet (of Bannockburn) entertained Prince Charles Edward Stuart in January 1746. Sir Hugh’s niece, Clementina, became Prince Charlie's mistress and bore him a daughter, Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany Bannockburn House still stands today as it was when Bonnie Prince Charlie visited itClan PatersonMotto Huc Tendimus Omnes (We all strive for this)