Old Photograph Craigentinny House Scotland

Old photograph of Craigentinny House, Edinburgh, Scotland. This was originally a typical laird's house of the late 16th century; parts of it were altered early in the 19th century. It was built originally for the Nisbets of Dean. In 1760 it was purchased by William Miller a wealthy Edinburgh Seed Merchant. His grandson, William Henry Miller born 1789, died 31 October 1848, a Scottish book collector and parliamentarian who sat in the House of Commons from 1830 to 1837, had the house extended and modernized in 1869. He died, unmarried, at Craigentinny House in his sixtieth year, and was by his own desire buried on his estate in a mausoleum erected after his decease, and decorated with sculptured friezes by Alfred Gatley.



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