Tour Scotland Travel Video Torosay Castle Isle Of Mull Inner Hebrides

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Torosay Castle south of Craignure on ancestry visit to the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. John Campbell of Possil sold the castle and the estate to Arburthnot Charles Guthrie, a wealthy London businessman, in 1865. Following the sale of Guthrie Castle out of the Guthrie family, Torosay was generally acknowledged as the seat for Clan Guthrie. The novelist Angela du Maurier, older sister of Dame Daphne du Maurier, is said to have spent some time residing at Torosay with her close companion Olive Guthrie, great grandmother of the present owner. Other visitors during the 1930s included Winston Churchill, Olive Guthrie was his aunt by marriage, and King George of Greece.



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