Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle

LADY BULLOUGH 1869 - 1967

Researched and written by George W. Randall co-founder in July 1996 and former Vice Chairman of Kinloch Castle Friend's Association.

Eldest daughter of French aristocrat Gerard Gastavus Ducarel, fourth Marquis de la Pasture, Lady Monica Lilly Bullough was born in New Zealand on 7 April 1869, her mother died the following day.

Monica married Charles E. N. Charrington on 19 March 1889 and a daughter, Dorothea Elizabeth, was born the following year. The marriage subsequently failed. In the divorce proceedings Charrington cited George Bullough as co-respondent. The fourteen year marriage was formerly dissolved on 25 May 1903. Thirty days later in a glittering ceremony at Kinloch Castle conducted by the Reverend John Sinclair, Minister of the Small Isles, Sir George and Monica were married. Their honeymoon was spent at Papadil Lodge, by Loch Papadil, on the south coast of the island of Rum.

The photograph depicts Lady Bullough during a fishing trip

on-board their steam yacht Rhouma.

The Coat of Arms of Sir George Bullough as depicted

on the Pedigree of Bullough displayed in the library at Kinloch Castle.

"Compiled from original evidences by H. Farnham Burke, Garter,"

the framed pedigree traces the family back over twenty-two generations

to Stephen Bulhalgh, born c. 1200 who "held lands in Kirkdale, Co. Lancaster."

Born 28 February 1870, educated at Harrow, Bullough was a captain

in the Scottish Horse Imperial Yeomanry and major and

Superintendent in the Remount Department.

Knighted on 10 December 1901 "for converting his yacht (Rhouma) into a

hospital ship for sick and wounded during the South African War",

he was created baronet (UK) on 21 January 1916 for making an interest

free loan of fifty thousand pounds to the government to help finance the war effort.

Hermione aged sixteen in 1922.

Sir George and Lady Bullough had one daughter, Hermione, born at 14 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London, on 5 November 1906 and christened at their home, Bishopswood House, Ross-on-Wye.

On 4 March 1931 at St. Mark's Church,
North Ardley Street, London, Hermione married
John Frederick Lambton, 5th. Lord Durham thereby being titled Countess of Durham.
Their son, the Honourable John George Lambton
was born the following year on 10 June.
As a child he played on the sandy beaches of Rum
and celebrated his twenty-first birthday at Kinloch Castle. Owner of Longholes Stud, Newmarket,
(which the author visited on several occasions),
and an enthusiastic follower of the turf,
his thoroughbred filly, "Wake up Maggie", (sire descendant of foundation stallion the Darley Arabian), was purchased as a two year old in April 2005. John Lambton died unmarried on 21 August 2012.