A HIGHLAND CATHOLIC HOME

New Zealand Tablet, 14 November 1912, Page 43

A HIGHLAND CATHOLIC HOME

The Hon. Bernard Howard of Glossop is heir to the barony of his father, the second Lord Howard of Glossop, and also to considerable estates in England and in the Scottish Highlands (says the Glasgow Observer). Dorlin, the family place on the west coast of Inverness-shire, nearly opposite Skye, has had an interesting history in modern times. Long owned by the Macdonalds of Lochshiel (a sept of the great house \>f Clanranald), the last laird found himself obliged to sell the property in the middle of the last century. A devout Catholic, who maintained a priest and a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament in his own house, he sold the place first to his brother-in-law, a Macdonell, who in turn had to part with it. Mr. James Hope-Scott, Newman's intimate friend, who had been received into the Catholic Church with Henry Edward Manning in April, 1851, was looking for an estate in a Catholic district of Scotland. By a curious chain of circumstances, and, as it seemed, in direct answer to the prayers of the survivors of the old Catholic family, he purchased the estato in 1856 for £24,000 without even having seen it. He built the present handsome house at Dorlin, and spent a large portion of the fortune he had acquired at the Parliamentary Bar in improving the condition of the place and of the poor people, who were in a state of miserable poverty. He built two Catholic churches, at Mingarry and Glenuig (the only chapel for the Catholic district of Moidart was then a miserable thatched cottage), constructed new roads, built an excellent school, and assisted his poorer tenants with the most assiduous kindness. : Mrs. Hope-Scott (grand-daughter and heiress of Sir Walter), for whose benefit her husband had been so anxious to establish a home in the Highlands, died in 1858. In 1860 Mr. Hope-Scott married Lady Victoria Howard, the present Duke of Norfolk's eldest sister.. Some years later ho sold his estate of Dorlin to his wife's uncle, tho first Lord Howard of Glossop, whose son and successor now owns it.