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John Alan Burns, whose family found the finance for The Cunard Line, succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Inverclyde of Castle Wemyss on August 16, 1919 and was invested as a Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.) and was admitted to The Royal Company of Archers.

He was married twice, firstly to Olivia Sylvia Sainsbury, on November 23, 1926, they divorcing in Scotland in 1928 and secondly to June Howard-Tripp, daughter of Walter Howard-Tripp, on March 21, 1929, they then divorced in Scotland in 1933.

June Tripp's descriptions of life in Castle Wemyss and on board Inverclyde's steam yacht, the "Beryl", are important because, that is all we have left of the forgotten era of the villages of Skelmorlie and Wemyss Bay and their BIG HOUSES