Raymond Morris changed his life by completely reinventing himself. Staffordshire-born, from his earliest days he grew up believing he’d been born in the wrong place. He took first steps to rectify this by enlisting in the Gordon Highlanders for National Service. By the time his long life ended, this constant kilt-wearer had become not just a walking encyclopaedia on all matters pertaining to clan matters, chivalry and heraldry, but had restored a castle, as well as creating and furnishing several homes in the Scots architectural idiom.
In so doing, he discovered that he possessed ownership to two titles. In the Scots tradition, he was Morris of Eddergoll, thanks to his restored mill near Aberfeldy, and when he, his wife Margaret and son Stuart took over