Old travel Blog photograph of Lochrosque near to Achnasheen in Wester Ross, Scotland. Sir Arthur Bignold, born 8 July 1839, was proprietor of Lochrosque and Strathbran Estates. He served as President of the Ross and Sutherland Benevolent Society as well as a magistrate of Ross and Cromarty and Chief of the Gaelic Society. A bagpipe march Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque is named after him. In September 1914 Winston Churchill, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty was travelling past Bignold's home, Lochrosque Castle, to inspect the fleet at Loch Ewe. Churchill noticed a light on the roof used for lamping deer and assumed that it was being used to communicate with German spies. Churchill and his Police protection officer invaded the Castle and dismantled the light to the annoyance of Bignold. Sir Arthur Bignold died on23 March 1915.
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