Old travel Blog photograph of vintage cars outside Burghfield House Hotel in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. Built in 1900, the turret and tower of this country house provides a visible landmark from the nearby Royal Burgh of Dornoch. At one time owned by Lord Rothermere, the newspaper magnate, it became a hotel in 1947. Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, born 26 April 1868, died 26 November 1940, was a leading British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. He was a pioneer of popular journalism. Lord Rothermere married Lilian Share, daughter of George Wade Share, on 4 July 1893. They had three sons, the two elder of whom were killed in the First World War: Captain The Hon. Harold Alfred Vyvyan St George Harmsworth, born 2 August 1894, died of wounds on 12 February 1918, aged 23, after serving with the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards in France. A week after his death he was awarded the Military Cross. He is buried in Hampstead Cemetery, In England. Lieutenant Vere Sidney Tudor Harmsworth, born 25 September 1895, killed in action during the first day of the Battle of the Ancre on 13 November 1916, aged 21, while serving with the Hawke Battalion 63rd Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Reserve. He is buried in the Ancre British Cemetery at Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme. Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, 29 May 1898, 12 July 1978. Viscountess Rothermere, as she had become, died on 16 March 1937
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