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 the Holy Family of Helmet By 1971, the school's future became more settled and the school had some 400 students. At present, the members of the Institute of the Holy Family operates schools in Belgium, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Honduras and Rwanda. The Lay Association of the Holy Family allows lay people, both men and women, to share in the work of the institute. Sisters of the Holy Family of Helmet The Religious Sisters of the Holy Family of () are a congregation of women founded in Belgium to provide education to young women in most need. They were founded by three