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Following the closure of the school, and the sale of the land, the
Mackinnon MacNeil Trust was able to continue to help young people and exists now to give bursaries to students from the Western Highlands and Islands going to university. The Trust is still chaired by a member of the Mackinnon
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In 1865 he established Gray, Dawes and
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William Mackinnon was erected in Mombasa, Kenya. It was later moved to the Dunbarton School in 1964, and finally moved again and re-erected in Campbelltown in 2004.
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William Mackinnon (middle) with Sir Henry Morton Stanley and Major-General Sir
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in 1862. It grew into a huge business trading round the coasts of the
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