Old Photograph Lawers House Scotland

Old photograph of Lawers House near Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Janet Robertson married a James Kemp a butler in Lawers House. Her brother, Daniel Robertson, founded the National Provincial Bank. He built Dalnagar in Glenshee and Dalnagar in Crieff. He left the equivalent of £5 million when he died aged 59 of diabetes.



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Old Photograph Malleny House Balerno Scotland

Old photograph of Malleny House by Balerno by Edinburgh, Scotland. The first record of an estate at Malleny dates back to 1330, but the first house we know of was built in 1478. In 1637 Sir James Murray of Kilbaberton built a house at Malleny, then a short ride from Edinburgh. Sir James, died 1634, was a Scottish master wright and architect. He served as the King's Master of Works under King James VI, and Charles I. He was one of the first men in Scotland to be called an architect. His father James Murray, died1615, was a master wright and was appointed Overseer of the King's Works in Scotland in 1601. The younger James was appointed Overseer in 1605, when his father resigned the post, and two years later was appointed principal Master of Works in Scotland, succeeding David Cunninghame of Robertland. He was granted land near Juniper Green, outside Edinburgh, in 1612. Between 1622 and 1623 he designed and built Baberton House as his home here. Murray drew up plans for Parliament House in Edinburgh in 1633, and the building was constructed to his design over the following years. As Master of Works he was also in charge of works at Linlithgow Palace, the reconstruction of Holyrood Palace prior to the coronation of Charles I, and additions to the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle. On 28 September 1608, Murray chased Finlay Taylor, a baillie of the Canongate, with a drawn sword in the Abbey Close near Holyroodhouse. In 1633, at the coronation of King Charles I, Murray was knighted. He died in December of the following year.



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Old Photograph Manse Road Corstorphine Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage, houses and children on Manse Road in Corstorphine, Edinburgh, Scotland.





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Old Photograph Melville Street Portobello Scotland

Old photograph of a church and houses in Melville Street in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Scottish novelist and artist, Lucy Bethia Colquhoun Walford, was born on 17 April 1845 in Portobello. She was the seventh child of John Colquhoun, born 1805, died 1885, of Luss, Dunbartonshire, author of The Moor and the Loch, and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland, born 1813, died 1877, a poet and hymn writer. Her paternal grandmother, Janet Colquhoun, born 1781, died 1846, was a religious writer, and an aunt, Catherine Sinclair, born 1800, died 1864, was a prolific novelist and children's writer. Lucy Colquhoun was educated privately by German governesses. Her reading included works by Charlotte Yonge and Susan Ferrier, and in later years Jane Austen. The family moved into Edinburgh in 1855, where guests included the artist Noël Paton, who encouraged her to take up painting. In 1868 and several succeeding years she exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy. Her first short piece of writing appeared in the Sunday Magazine in May 1869. On 23 June 1869 she married Alfred Saunders Walford, a magistrate of Ilford, Essex, and they moved to London, England. They had two sons and five daughters. The children were said to be " never put aside for her work " and " constantly with their mother. " She died on 11 May 1915 at her home in Pimlico, London.



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Old Photograph Murrayshall House Scotland

Old photograph of Murrayshall House by Scone near Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The original Murrayshall House was built in 1664 by Sir Andrew Murray; son of the First Lord of Balvaird, and brother of David Murray, the Second Lord of Balvaird and Fourth Viscount of Stormont. The direct descendants of this family are the Earls of Mansfield, who occupy Scone Palace to this day. Sir Andrew's granddaughter, Janet Murray, went on to marry Patrick Graham, the great uncle of Thomas Graham, who later became Lord Lynedoch. Thus, the Murrays and then the Graham Murrays occupied the house for some 260 years. The house was modernised in the 18th Century, and again in 1864. Yet, tragedy struck in 1925 when a major fire killed a young heir to the Murrayshall estate, effectively ending the Murray family's connection with this unique house and its land.



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