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unusual facts about A' Chill


Canna, Scotland

A' Chill, situated to the north west of Canna Harbour was the main settlement until 1851 when the island was cleared.



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John Deare

By his death in Rome in 1796 (after sleeping on a block of marble hoping for inspiration and catching a chill) Deare had married an Italian woman, who he left with their children as a widow and for whose benefit Deare's friends such as Vincenzo Pacetti and Christopher Hewetson posthumously disposed of his studio contents.

Thomas Claude Robson

He caught a chill at Gibraltar in 1924, from which he never recovered, and he died, aged 26, at his parents’ residence in Kimberley.