While most people mark a milestone birthday with a trip or jewelry, John 'Jock' Elliott did something far bigger in 1986. According to an account published by the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA, this American advertising executive bought his wife Eleanor, known to her friends as Elly, an entire Scottish island, as a gift for her 60th birthday. But the couple, as per the National Trust for Scotland, the charity which has cared for the island ever since, did not keep the gift, handing it over the same year instead.
A love for Scotland, not a trophy purchase
