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2 unusual facts about Kildalton Castle


Kildalton Castle

Kildalton was sold in 1922 to John Talbot Clifton, a well-to-do landowner from Lytham, Lancashire who was passionately fond of shooting and foreign travel.

He died in 1892 and the distillery continued under his wife and son, but in 1920 was sold to the Distillers Company.


John Talbot Clifton

In 1922 they bought and moved to live at Kildalton Castle on the Scottish island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides where his passion for shooting wildlife continued unabated.


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