Word: duart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter wind shrilled over the precipitous heather-covered mountains of the Isle of Mull last week. A few black, bleary-eyed sheep huddled in the lee of ancient deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain...
Jacobites to the end, the Macleans of Duart were dispossessed from the Isle of Mull in 1691. Eighty years ago Sir Fitzroy, then a beardless youngster, sailed out from the mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...
Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking. But the buckles on his pumps were no brighter than his blue eyes. In addition to the hardy souls who journeyed to Duart Castle to make merry amid ancestral scenes, Macleans in Canada, India and the U. S. were drinking Sir Fitzroy 's health...