Rum is one of the Small Isles, part of the British Isles. The name is not spelt Rhum, which was coined in the 1900s by the former owner, Sir George Bullough, because he did not relish the idea of having the title "Laird of Rum". It is inhabited by about 30 people. It was historically the possession of the Macleans of Coll. The island was cleared of its human population for sheep farming in 1826. The population at this time was 450. 300 were cleared and had passage paid to Canada that year, with another 100-plus the following year. The sheep venture was a failure and the island then passed in the 1840s to the Marquis of Salisbury, who converted it to a sporting estate. Although retaining many of the sheep he reintroduced the red deer which had become extinct on the island in the 18th century The Small Isles are a group of islands considered part of the British Isles, lying in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. ... The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ... // Events and Trends Technology Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft Mass production of automobile Wide popularity of home phonograph Panama Canal is built by the United...

The island had a number of short-term tenents until George Bullough's father John Bullough (a self-made millionaire cotton machinery manufacturer from Accrington, Lancashire) acquired the island in the late 1870s and continued the island's use as a sporting estate. By the time of Sir George Bullough, who built the castle in 1900, there were about 100 people employed on the estate. This included 14 under gardeners in the extensive grounds which included a nine-hole golf coures, tennis and squash courts, hothouses, turtle ponds, aviary etc. Arms of Accrington Borough Council Accrington, in the County of Lancashire, is a small former mill town in the industrial north-west of England. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ...

The granite island was bought by the Nature Conservancy Council (now Scottish Natural Heritage) in 1957 to be a National Nature Reserve. It contains the Edwardian Kinloch Castle dwelled in by the Bulloughs, made of red sandstone from Annan. Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... The Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) was a former British government agency responsible for designating and managing national nature reserves and other such conservation areas. ... Scottish Natural Heritage is a government agency in the United Kingdom. ... National Nature Reserve is a United Kingdom government conservation designation for a nature reserve of national significance. ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... Red Sandstone in Wyoming Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ... The town of Annan stands on the River Annan in the region of Dumfries and Galloway on the Solway Firth in the south of Scotland. ...

Rum is now an important study site for research in ecology. Its [[Red Deer]] population have been the subject of study for many years, recently under the leadership of Tim Clutton-Brock. This study has been important in the development of sociobiology and behavioral ecology, particularly in relation to the understanding of aggression through game theory, i.e. the theory of the evolutionarily stable strategy as developed by John Maynard Smith. (Ecology is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for the natural environment. ... Sociobiology is a synthesis of scientific disciplines that attempts to explain behaviour in all species by considering the evolutionary advantages of social behaviours. ... Behavioral ecology is the study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, and the roles of behavior in enabling an animal to adapt to its environment (both intrinsic and extrinsic). ... Aggression is defined as The act of initiating hostilities or invasion. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that uses models to study interactions with formalised incentive structures (games). Unlike decision theory, which also studies formalised incentive structures, game theory encompasses decisions that are made in an environment where various players interact strategically. ... The evolutionarily stable strategy (or ESS; also evolutionary stable strategy) is a central concept in game theory introduced by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price in 1973 (a full account is given by Maynard Smiths 1982 book Evolution and the Theory of Games). ... John Maynard Smith Professor John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. ...

The island came to widespread attention with the 2000 publication of the book A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh, a British writer and television producer. The book told of a long-running scientific controversy over the alleged discovery of certain plants on Rum by botanist John Heslop Harrison - discoveries that are now considered to be fraudulent. Heslop Harrison is widely believed to have placed many of these plants on the island himself, to provide evidence for his theory about the geological development of the Hebrides islands. The Hebrides comprise a wide-spread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, and in geological terms are composed of the oldest rocks in the British Isles and Ireland. ...

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