Tulloch Castle (4 of 4)
Tulloch belonged for many generations to the Bain family and was erected as a free barony by King Charles II in favour of Sir Donald Bain of Tulloch in 1678.  Kenneth Bayne, 8th Laird and 5th baron of Tulloch, sold the estate to his cousin, Henry Davidson, in 1762.

Henry Davidson, who seems to have preferred to continue the numbering initiated by his Bain cousins, 6th baron of Tulloch, received a charter from King George III dated 23 February 1763.  On Henry's death in 1781 Tulloch was inherited by his younger brother Duncan Davidson, who was MP for Cromartyshire from 1790 to 1796 - another of those long forgotten Scottish county names!  Duncan, the last Davidson of Tulloch, died in 1917.  He left the castle and the barony to his daughter and her son, Colonel Angus Vickers, of the Vickers aircraft company, who employed the architect Sir Robert Lorimer. to design alterations in the early 1920s.  In 1940 it was used as a hospital for casualties from the Dunkirk evacuation.  It was purchased by the local education authority in 1957 and used as a hostel for students from the west coast of Scotland, studying at Dingwall Academy until 1976. After this, the castle fell into disrepair until it was renovated and converted into a notel.
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