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The £2 million figure is improbable. I've read that the expansion of Eaton Hall was the most expensive British house project of the 19th century at £600,000. Perhaps it was 2 million dollars, which would have been £400,000. Merchbow 13:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I can't see any mention in the linked Ewan McGreggor page of any wedding at Skibo. It states "On 22 July 1995, in a village in France, McGregor married Eve Mavrakis" Andrew Mackenzie ( talk) 14:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
This article is about a building and its estate, and their history and architecture. While mention of a recent bird poisoning case may be note worthy, this much devoted to the matter is putting it out of proportion. That's over 250 words in an article barely 900 long. About 30% of the article is spent on the details of this case. Precisely what does that much detail add to the article that a one sentence summary does not? Not to mention the repetition and outdated information due to piece-meal updating. This edit was ridiculous. Referencing is not enough to support the unbalancing of this article. Nev1 ( talk) 01:28, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
At the turn of the century in 1900 Andrew Carnegie, the celebrated steel magnate and philanthropist was the richest man in the world and worth about $850 million. In the subsequent years he gave most of it away, but he still managed to buy and develop Skibo Castle in the Highlands of Scotland, famous most recently for hosting the high profile wedding of Madonna, as well as that of Ashley Judd. The Castle, which is situated in 7,500 acres of impressive looking Scottish scenery, is located in Sutherland, a few miles from the village of Dornoch, famous not only for the visit of Madonna to the local church, but also as being the site of the Witches Stone. That is where one of the last witches in Scotland was put to death. etc etc
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Through the latter half of the 20th Century (and perhaps into the 21st by a wee bit) the student union building at Carnegie-Mellon University was called Skibo, in reference to AC's home in Scotland. It housed the Tartan Grill and Kiltie Cafe. It was "classic" mid-century campus architecture... nothing Scottish about it.... PurpleChez ( talk) 13:08, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
William Gray - died 1788, in the 1760s Provost-Marshal of Jamaica - is reputed to have had something to do with the rebuilding. Confirmation? Delahays ( talk) 07:29, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
Update on William Gray: It turns out that beween 1745 and 1773 the estate was in the hands of George Mackay, third so of the then Lord Reay. It ruined him. William Gray bought it after 1774, completing the documentation of his purchase around 1778. But he seems to have reckoned without the debts on the property and his affairs in Jamaica were badly stretched. In 1786 the estate was put up for judicial sale, resulting in the purchase by George Dempster. Gray was back in Jamaica by then and died there in 1788. Delahays ( talk) 14:55, 28 April 2021 (UTC)