Word: dungavel
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...phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel Castle near Glasgow. Dungavel is the seat of 38-year-old Wing Commander Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, 11th Duke of Brandon...
...clock Summer Time, the very end of the long northern twilight when he circled the grounds of Dungavel. He zoomed his plane a few thousand feet, then bailed out. Bullet holes were found in the tail of his wrecked plane later...
...crash and puff into flame, saw also the white bloom of the parachute drifting down through the dusk Armed with a pitchfork, he found Hess lying on the ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...
...Nazi leader had been looking for an influential Briton to get the Government's ear for him, Dungavel was hardly the right address. The Duke was away on active service, and his prominence has come mostly in sporting papers and gossip columns...
Lord Clydesdale to drive the 400 twisty-laned miles between Oxford and Dungavel in one day. He first took up flying after his 1924 round-the-world boxing tour with Eddie Eagan...
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