Bedroom And Bathroom On Visit To Kinloch Castle On Island Of Rum Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the bedroom and bathroom, used by Sir George Bullough, on visit to Kinloch Castle on the Island of Rum one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides. Sir George Bullough was born on 28 February 1870 in Accrington, Lancashire, England. He was educated at Harrow School. In 1891 the 21 year-old George Bullough and half brother Ian each inherited a half interest in Howard & Bullough, their father's successful textile machinery manufacturing company. As well, George inherited the island of Rùm, the family's sporting estate in the Inner Hebrides where he would build Kinloch Castle between 1898 and 1901. In 1903, George Bullough married Monique Lilly de la Pasture whose family had an estate at Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France. Known as Lady Monica, she obtained a divorce in order to marry Bullough. She was the eldest daughter of the Fourth Marquis de la Pasture whose aristocrat ancestors had fled the French Revolution and Leontine Standish, born 1843, died 1869, daughter of Lord Charles Strickland Standish, born 1790, died 1863. They had one daughter, Hermione, brn 5 November 1906, ded 27 October 1990, who married John Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham. Sir George Bullough died in 1939 while playing golf in France. He was buried alongside his father John Bullough in the family mausoleum at Harris on the west coast of Rùm. The Bullough surname is derived from the Middle English word " bullok, " from the Old English " bulluc, " which refer to a " young bull." As a name, it most likely evolved from a nickname for an exuberant yo ung man, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of bullocks. The surname Bullough was first found in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders where one of the earliest records of the name was Adam Bulloc who witnessed an agreement the abbot and the monks of Newbattle around 1250. A few years later, Richard Bullock was slain at the Battle of Cambok in 1278. Spelling variations of this family name include: Bullock, Bullocke, Bulloch, Bullok, Bulloc and others. The name was probably introduced from England, and in the fourteenth century there was a family of sailors of the name trading between English and Scottish ports. Joseph Bullough, was a British settler who travelled from Gravesend aboard the ship Kingston arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 29th December 1858 This castle is closed at present due to the coronavirus pandemic. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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