Sir Arthur Bignold (8 July 1839 – 23 March 1915)[1] was a Liberal Unionist Party politician in Scotland who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wick Burghs from 1900 to 1910.
[3] He won his seat in the House of Commons at the 1900 general election,[4] when he defeated the sitting Liberal Party MP Thomas Hedderwick.
[8] In September 1914 Winston Churchill, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty was travelling past Bignold's home, Lochrosque Castle, to inspect the fleet at Loch Ewe.
Churchill noticed a light on the roof used for lamping deer and assumed that it was being used to communicate with German spies.
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