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Eilean Rìgh

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The current owner is a Scottish-based ex-financier, Christian Siva-Jothy, who bought the island from Viscount Chewton in 1998. He substantially renovated the properties on it, installing mains electrics via an undersea power cable, a new fresh water well and telecoms via a microwave link. The
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island was for sale from 2013 for over a year but was taken off the market early in 2015 when Siva-Jothy sold his estate in the north of Scotland and moved back to live permanently on Eilean Righ. Siva-Jothy and his wife—who studied Mandarin at
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and his cousin Robert Banks Skinner. They believed that in the future the UK would become crowded and the island would be a place for some privacy, but it was largely used as a holiday home. In 1992 it was sold to
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The property was purchased by a retired Indian army officer, Major Campbell, who lived in it with his family until the outbreak of the
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in the Chinese-style gardens. Chinese servants lived in the farmhouse. In the multiple Oscar winning film by Bernardo Bertolucci
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Not to be confused with a similarly named islet south of
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for "King's Island", although which royal is not known.
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Index

Eilean Righ
Ulva
NM397380
Scottish Gaelic
Eilean Rìgh is located in Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference
NM801018
Coordinates
56°10′N 5°32′W / 56.16°N 5.54°W / 56.16; -5.54
Islay
Council area
Argyll and Bute
Country
Scotland
United Kingdom
Demographics
Inner Hebrides
Scotland
Loch Craignish
Argyll
Gaelic

Eilean Mhic Chrion
Iron Age
Sir Reginald Johnston
Puyi
Buddhist
flag of Manchukuo
The Last Emperor
Peter O'Toole

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