Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . A PORTION OF THE OLD CASTLE OF DUNROBIN DUNROBIN CASTLE BY LORD RONALD SUTHERLAND GOWERI IN this paper I shall give first some account of the ancientfamily of Sutherland, which has owned the old Castle ofDunrobin in uninterrupted sequence since the days of asomewhat legendary Earl Robin, who, some seven hundred yearsago, raised the castle on the hill which still bears his name, for Dun signifies in Gaelic, a hill, and Robin, the prefix of thebuilder. Although antiquarians dispute as to the name of Dunrobinbeing taken from that of the Earl
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . A PORTION OF THE OLD CASTLE OF DUNROBIN DUNROBIN CASTLE BY LORD RONALD SUTHERLAND GOWERI IN this paper I shall give first some account of the ancientfamily of Sutherland, which has owned the old Castle ofDunrobin in uninterrupted sequence since the days of asomewhat legendary Earl Robin, who, some seven hundred yearsago, raised the castle on the hill which still bears his name, for Dun signifies in Gaelic, a hill, and Robin, the prefix of thebuilder. Although antiquarians dispute as to the name of Dunrobinbeing taken from that of the Earl, and although it was only in1401 that the sixth Earl dated a letter from Dunrobyn, and theeighth, in 14012, from Dunrobbin, certain it is that for five cent-uries the castle has been known as Dunrobin, and it is undeniably 2 12 H)unrobiii Caetle the oldest secular building now inhabited, and in use, and by thesame family, in Scotland. Far back in the dim dawn of Scottish history, the House ofSutherland can claim to have existed in the region between
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