Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the drawing room, on visit to Kinloch Castle on the Island of Rum one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides. The south facing drawing was redecorated by Lady Bullough after her marriage in 1906. They have Adam-style chimneypieces and French reproduction neo classical furniture. 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. A drawing room is a room in a house or castle where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642.
Rùm was owned by Alexander Maclean of Coll in the early 19th century. At that time, during the Napoleonic Wars, kelp from the Scottish islands was a valuable commodity, being used to produce soda ash for use in explosives. After the war, prices collapsed and Maclean was forced to lease the island to a relative, Lachlan Maclean, for sheep farming. As a result, the entire population, which counted 443 people in 1795, were cleared from the island by 1828, only for new tenants to be brought in from Skye and Muck to service the sheep farm.
This castle is closed at present due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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