Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of Glenborrodale Castle and gardens on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Loch Sunart in the Scottish Highlands, Britain, U:nited Kingdom. In May 1746, following the Jacobite rising of 1745 two French supply ships were attacked off Glenborrodale by three ships of the Royal Navy. Glenborrodale Castle was built in 1902 by Charles Rudd. Charles Dunell Rudd was born on the 22nd of October in 1844. He was the son of Henry Rudd, born 1809, died 1884, who had a shipbuilding business in London, and his first wife Mary Stanbridge. Rudd studied at Harrow School and then entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in 1863. In 1872/3 Rudd and Cecil Rhodes became friends and partners, working diamond claims in Kimberley, South Africa, dealing in diamonds and operating pumping and ice making machinery, amongst many other odds and ends. Between 1873 and 1881, while Rhodes intermittently attended college in England, Rudd managed their interests. By 1880 they had become rich and, with others, formed the De Beers Mining Company. Rudd was one of the directors and also held large interests in the main machinery supplier for the mining field. In South Africa, Rudd married his first wife, Frances Georgina " Fanny " Leighton Chiappini. Rudd and Fanny had a daughter, Evelyn, and three sons: Henry Percy, known as Percy; Franklyn Martin; and Charles John Lockhart, known as Jack. Percy’s son, Bevil Rudd was an Olympic champion 400 metre runner. Frances died in 1896 of influenza or tuberculosis, and in 1898 Rudd married 24 year old Corrie Maria Wallace, the daughter of his partner in the machinery company in Kimberley, with whom he had three more children. Rudd eventually retired to Scotland, and in 1896, he bought the Ardnamurchan estate in Argyll, where he built Glenborrodale Castle, just for his guests. He died in 1916 after an unsuccessful prostate operation in a nursing home in London. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September
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