http://www.celticcastles.com/castles/amhuinnsuidhe/amhuinnsuidhe-castle-html/history.html

"Sir Edward Scott was succeeded by his son, Sir Samuel Scott, and his wife Lady Sophie. It was during their time at the Castle that Lord Leverhulme purchased South Harris in May 1919 and one month later he purchased the North Harris Estate, including the Castle, for the sum of £20,000. Sir Samuel retained a 15-year lease of the Castle at a nominal rent of £l a year. With the final purchase of North Harris, Lord Leverhulme became the biggest private landowner in the kingdom."

According to page 27 of a book titled "Cairn 85: Illustrated Souvenir Publication Doated to the South Wales & West of England Cairn Terrier Club, Lady Sophie Beatrix Mary Cadogan nee Scott (b. 1874 - d. November 1937) was the second daughter of the fifth Earl of Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and married Sir Samuel Scott in 1896.


JOHN HANSON WALKER (1844-1933) Portrait of Lewin Edward Cadogan, in a sailor suit; Portrait of Sophie Beatrix Mary Cadogan, 66cm x 55.8cm, o/c, dos. 07/06/01, CSK £ 5,287 http://www.antiquesbulletin.com/information/artprices/result.php?page=3&atoz=w http://www.taxi-l.org/joyce01.htm

The fifth Earl of Cadogan is mentioned in Ulysses:

"The section of Ulysses that takes place in Skin-the-Goat's shelter is fraught with significance for Joyce scholars, who debate its symbolic role in the book as a whole. For the rest of us it is rather disappointing. Joyce's jarvies don't talk shop, so they tell us next to nothing about the 1904 Dublin cab trade. The one exception is a news item which one of them reads aloud:

'The cabby read out of the paper he had got hold of that the former viceroy, earl Cadogan, had presided at the cabdrivers' association dinner in London somewhere. Silence with a yawn or two accompanied this thrilling announcement.' [16 1162-1665]

This turns out to be a real news item, although it did not appear in the Dublin Evening Telegraph until June 27, 1904, ten days after the scene in the cabman's shelter. George Henry Cadogan, the fifth earl, was lord-lieutenant of Ireland from 1895 to 1902, and he presided over a dinner of the Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association. In the opinion of Vance Thompson the CBA was among the best of the philanthropic organizations devoted to the interest of cab drivers:

'The cabman who becomes a member pays in an annual subscription of five shillings. When old or disabled he receives an annuity of twenty pounds a year; at least twelve annuitants are yearly chosen by vote of the members. Among those elected this year were our friends Knock Softly, who had driven a cab for forty-three years, Crimea Sailor Jack, who retires at seventy-one after forty-five years on the box and Little Hill of Westbourne Park and Davis Street, who had driven nearly half a century.'"


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