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Old Photograph Greywalls House Scotland
Old photograph of Greywalls House, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. This house was built in 1901 for Alfred Lyttelton, to designs by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Alfred Lyttelton, born 1857, died 1913, served as a Member of Parliament from 1895 to 1913, holding office as Colonial Secretary from 1903 to 1905. He was also a talented sportsman, having previously played on the English national cricket and football teams. A keen golfer, in 1901 he commissioned the architect Edwin Lutyens to design a holiday home on a site adjacent to Muirfield golf course on the East Lothian coast. Originally known as High Walls, the house was designed in Lutyens' Arts and Crafts style. Lutyens also laid out the gardens, possibly with the assistance of Gertrude Jekyll. In 1905 the house was sold by Lyttelton to Evelyn Forbes, the Scots socialite wife of American railroad magnate William Dodge James.
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