Old photograph of houses and trees on Moray Place in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1822, Francis Stuart, 10th Earl of Moray, commissioned the architect James Gillespie Graham to draw up plans to build over 150 huge townhouses on Moray Estate land. Lord Moray took one of the largest and most prominent houses: 28 Moray Place. Other notable residents included Alexander Kinnear, 1st Baron Kinnear, George Deas, Lord Deas, Sir David Baxter of Kilmaron, Charles Dundas Lawrie, John Learmonth, John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, Charles Hope, Lord Granton, Robert MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale and his son George Lewis MacFarlane, John MacGregor McCandlish, John Hope, Lord Hope, Francis Brown Douglas Lord Provost, Bouverie Francis Primrose, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, George Young, Lord Young, Thomas Charles Hope, Sir James Miles Riddell, John Fullerton, Lord Fullerton, Baron Hume, Robert Kerr, Lord Kerr, William Thomas Thomson and his son Spencer Campbell Thomson, Thomas Jamieson Boyd Lord Provost, James Skene, Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff, 9th Baronet, John Corse Scott, Reverend George Coventry.
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