Loch na Keal and James Boswell during their tour of the Hebrides; they were entertained there by Sir Allan MacLean, head of the Maclean clan. Both Johnson and Boswell published accounts of their visit. Its most famous owners were the eccentric Mitford family. Nazi sympathiser Unity Mitford spent her final years on the island. Following the death of their father Lord Redesdale, the island was inherited under Scots Law by the surviving Mitford sisters and not his wife, as Lord Redesdale had willed it to his deceased son Tom. When their mother died in 1963, Nancy gave her share to Jessica, who bought
Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition (French: "Sœurs de Saint-Joseph-de-l'Apparition"; Latin: "Institutum Sororum a S. Joseph ab Apparitione"; abbreviation: "S.J.A.") is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common. Emily de Vialar was born into an aristocratic family in Gaillac, France on 12th September 12 1797. As the Sisters of Charity of Nevers cared for the sick poor and abandoned infants at their hospital, Emily decided to direct her attention to the education of