Word: inveraray
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...buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots who fear that uncaring foreigners might buy the island or that developers might transform its 2,000 acres of windswept pastures into...
...team for $2,000 per couple per day. For the more active twosome, Sakowitz will serve up a weekend of treasure hunting for Spanish gold at the bottom of Scotland's Tobermory Bay, complete with licensed diver, plus bed and board at the Duke of Argyll's Inveraray Castle (cost: $50,000 a pair in Yankee green). Or, for $37,500 each, they can spend two weeks aboard a schooner retracing Darwin's voyage of the Beagle. Sakowitz, while reporting more "interest" than sales, was hoping for a last-minute spurt in exotica purchases...
Died. Ian Douglas Campbell, 69, eleventh Duke of Argyll and hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks...
Passion for Nature. In Biographer Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning...
...Duke of Argyll, 72-year-old, 20-titled, elf-seeing, Gaelic-speaking laird of Inveraray, Scotland, received in absentia a court admonition (public reproof carrying no fine or sentence). The trouble started when 79-year-old Town Clerk Robert Sutherland Corrigall stopped by with some Department of Health recommendations for cleaning up the ducal estate. His crusty Lordship listened carefully, politely shook hands, then gave his caller a good caning followed by an offer to throw him in nearby Loch Fyne. The Duke refused to appear in court, sent word that, after seven weeks of reflection, he had apologized...