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2 unusual facts about Rowallan Castle


John Corbett, 4th Baron Rowallan

The 4th Lord Rowallan inherited Rowallan Castle, the family seat, directly from his grandfather, the 2nd Lord Rowallan, in 1977.

Rowallan Castle

Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan had his second marriage annulled in 1970 on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transsexual woman, was a man under then-current UK law.


Thorntoun house and estate

By the beginning of the seventeenth century Thorntoun had passed into the ownership of another ancient and renowned Ayrshire family, the Mures (or Muirs), a branch of the Mures of Rowallan Castle near Kilmaurs.


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