Fullarton House, a seat of the Duke of Portland in Dundonald parish, Ayrshire, 1½ mile ESE of Troon. The estate around it belonged to the Foulertouns or Fullartons of that ilk from the 13th century till 1805, when it was sold to the third Duke of Portland by Col. William Fullarton (1754-1808). This gallant soldier and author, immortalised in Burns's Vision, was born at Fullarton House, which was built by his father in 1745. It has since been twice enlarged by the addition of wings, and what was once the back is now the front-a great improvement, any sacrifice of architectural grace being more than compensated by the fact that the house now faces the Firth of Clyde and isle of Arran. That Louis Napoleon stayed here in 1839 is false; but the fourth Duke's third son, the Conservative leader and sportsman, Lord George Bentinck (1802-48), passed much of his boyhood at Fullarton. John William Arthur Charles James Cavendish Bentinck, present and sixth Duke since 1716 (b. 1857; suc. 1879), holds 24, 787 acres in Ayrshire, valued at £60, 533 per annum, including £10, 708 for harbour works, and £16,199 for minerals.—Ord. Sur., sh. 22, 1865. See La gwell and the Rev. J. Kirkwood's Troon and Dundonald (3d ed., Kilmar., 1881).

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)