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The Duke of Argyll who owned most of Mull sold the lands around Tobermory in 1788 to the British Fisheries Society. The Estate was sold in 1821 to Hugh Maclean of Coll who built Aros House, then known as Druimfin House (access to the house was originally by way of Druimfin). The house was designed by William Burn in 1825 but was never completed as intended. In 1846 Aros passed to David Nairn of Drumkilbo. Alexander Crawford from Edinburgh acquired the Estate in 1850 and died a few years later so in 1856 the Estate was bought by Farquhar Campbell. The saw mill on the estate was built just before its sale in 1873. The Allan family owned and lived in Aros House from May 1874 to 1959. Bryce Allen who paid