All About Edinburgh
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Once the New town in Edinburgh was habitable it was quickly occupied by the merchants and well to do moving from the Canongate and Old Edinburgh. The New Tow was soon extended past Queen Street Gardens to the north. The next row of houses being Heriot Row and Abercrombie Place with Nelson Street, India Street, Dundas Street, Dublin Street and Albany Street all branching from them. This page covers Heriot Row and Abercrombie Place, Nelson Street,
Dundas Street, Dublin Street, London Street, Drummond Place Mansfield Place, Northumberland Street and Albany Street.
Heriot Row
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Robert Louis Stevenson
he went to school at Canonmills (now Baptist Church). The Stevenson family moved in 1857 to 17 Heriot Row Edinburgh
Robert Louis Stevenson was born Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, on 13 November 1850.
He then moved with his parents to a new family home in Inverleith Row before moving to 17 Heriot Row where he lived from the age of 7 for the next 23 years the Stevenson family home.
Then moving to Tusitala an island of Samoa, where he lived until he died in 1894 (aged 44).
There is a bronze memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson in the
Moray Aisle of St Giles Cathedral.
Other residents of the Row were at No.6 Henry Mackenzie Author died here 1831 and friend of Robert Burns.
Nelson Street
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Sir Alexander MacKenzie Lived at No 22 Nelson Street. A famous Composer and Musician
Robert Garioch Sutherland
Robert Sutherland lived at No4 Nelson Street a poet and Makar. He was honoured with a Makars' paving slab in Makars' Court in the Lawnmarket Edinburgh.
Drummond Place
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Sydney Goodsir Smith
Sydney Goodsir Smith was born on 26 October 1915 in Wellington, New Zealand Scottish mother came to Edinburgh with his parents in 1928.A renowned Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. His home was 25 Drummond Place where he died young on the 15 January 1975 at the age of 59. There is a slab in Makars’ Court Lawnmarket to honour him and he is buried in the Dean Cemetery.
William and Fanny McTaggart
Sir William McTaggart (1903 – 1981) was a landscape artist and was married to Fanny Aavatsmark a Norwegian Journalist and Patriot. Born in Loanhead Midlothian he was a successful artist and teacher, he was given many honours including a knighthood in 1962. He lived with his wife Fanny Aavatsmark at Drummond Place Edinburgh till his death in 1981.
Sir Compton McKenzie
(writer)
Compton McKenzie was born in 1893 in West Hartlepool
His English father and American mother both actors.
Compton Mackenzie moved to Scotland at the age of 35 and was a resident on Barra, having a house Suidheachan built in 1928. Moving to his new home in Edinburgh at
31-32 Drummond Place in 1946.
Sir Compton Mackenzie died at his Edinburgh home in 1972 and was buried on the Isle of Barra where he wrote his novel Whisky Galore from true events.
York Place
Edinburghs nya stad
Nordöstra
York Place var en del av den norra förlängningen av den nya staden, en fortsättning på Queen Street, och är oförändrad sedan den byggdes omkring 1820. Det fanns många framstående familjer som bodde i husen längs denna genomfartsled.
Sir Henry Raeburn
Henry Raeburn var porträttmålare och föddes i Stockbridge, Edinburgh, år 1756 och dog i Stockbridge, Edinburgh, år 1823. Han byggde ett hus på York Place 32, det var här han målade från 1795 till 1809. Han adlades 1822 av kung George IV och är erkänd som Skottlands mest berömda porträttmålare. Hans mest kända verk är ”The Skating Minister”. Pastor Robert Walker från Canongate Kirk åkte skridskor på Duddingston Loch.
Målningen finns i National Gallery of Scotland. Huvudgatan i Stockbridge är Raeburn Place, uppkallad efter målaren nära där han föddes och även dog.
York Place
Edinburghs nya stad
Nordöstra
James Nasmyth
Födelseort
James Nasmyth Inventor
James Nasmyth born 47 York Place Edinburgh in 1808 became a Scottish engineer famed for inventing the steam hammer in 1842 and many other engineering firsts in his foundry in Manchester. He produced many tools and steam engines. His father Alex was a renowned Scottish artist.
Alexander Nasmyth Artist
Alexander Nasmyth born in 1758 in Edinburgh live at 47 York Place and was said to be the father of Scottish Landscape Painting. He Studied under Allan Ramsay and as a friend of Robert Burns was fortunate enough to be the only one to paint a portrait of Robert Burns that exists today.
Dundas Street
Edinburgh New Town
North East
The Botanic Society
The Botanic Society of Edinburgh was founded at 15 Dundas Street on 8th February 1836.
Abercrombie Place
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, DBE
Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, DBE campaigned for the rights of women to have equal opportunities for education. She was born in 1846 in Edinburgh. She founded the Edinburgh Essay Society which became the Edinburgh Debating Society at the age of 19 and was president of for 70 years. She was a principal in setting up St George’s training college which was the first Scottish institution for training women to teach in secondary education, Girls from St. George’s College were among the first female graduates of Edinburgh University. The tireless campaigning and endless work for women’s education led to an honorary LLD (Legum Doctor Latin: “teacher of the laws”) from Edinburgh University in 1920 and a DBE (Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1931.
Abercrombie Place
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Kinross House
Kinross House was the offices of John Kinross a highly respected architect and president of the Edinburgh Architectural Association between 1890 and 1892, and was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1905. He was responsible of the restorations of many historic buildings including Falkland Palace in Fife and the Priory Church of St Mary in South Queensferry.
Abercrombie Place
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Royal Scots Memorial Club
The Royal Scots War Memorial Fund was formed in 1919 to fund the purchase of the Club.
The first buildings No 30 and 31 Abercromby Place were purchased in 1921 with the further purchase of No. 29 years later. At that time the three buildings were converted into the Royal Scots War Memorial Club circa 1929.
The purpose of the Club was to honour the memory of all ranks 11,162 Royal Scots who had been killed in the Great war.
Abercrombie Place
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Marie Charlotte
Carmichael Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes woman of achievement plaque can be seen at 3 Abercrombie Place Edinburgh where she was born.Marie Stopes was born in Edinburgh in 1880 and went to school at St Georges Garscube Terrace Edinburgh 1892 – 94. She became an author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for women’s rights.
Northumberlandgatan
Edinburghs nya stad
Nordöstra
John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart-plaketten på Northumberland Street i Edinburgh. Svärson till Sir Walter Scott och författare till Sir Walter Scotts biografi, han är begravd bredvid honom i Dryburgh Abbey.
andra invånare på gatan var amiral Sir WG Fairfax som bodde på nr 53, Sir John Hope nr 57
Dublin Street
Edinburgh New Town
North East
Herbert Nigel Gresley
Herbert Nigel Gresley was born here 1876 he is famous for designing steam locomotives, the Flying Scotsman and Mallard two iconic steam trains both designed by him.
Stora kungagatan
Edinburghs nya stad
Nordöstra
Sir William Allan
Sir William Allan föddes i Edinburgh 1872 och blev en världsberömd konstnär. Han var ordförande för Royal Scottish Academy och Royal Academician. Några av hans verk inkluderar: Mordet på David Rizzio, Sir Walter Scott, Undertecknandet av det nationella förbundet på Greyfriars kyrkogård och Slaget vid Waterloo.
Felix Yaniewiscz
Felix Yaniewiscz var en polsk violinist och kompositör. Han föddes 1762. Han flyttade till Edinburgh 1815 och var medorganisatör för den första Edinburgh Music Festival. Han bodde på Great King Street från 1823 till sin död i maj 1848.
Sir J.M. Barrie
Sir JM Barrie var känd för sin bok Peter Pan. James Matthew Barrie tog examen från Edinburghs universitet 1882. Historiskt sett måste hans karaktär Peter Pan vara känd av fler människor världen över än någon annan karaktär. Han tillbringade många år i Edinburgh. Han var kansler för Edinburghs universitet under sina sista år, från 1930 till 1937.
Cumberlandgatan
Edinburghs nya stad
Nordöstra
Uppkallad efter hertig Cumberland, kung George III:s femte son.
Jean Thomas Harris
Rotaryklubben
Jean Thomson föddes på Cumberland Street och bodde där med sina föräldrar tills hon 1892 flyttade till Comely Bank Avenue. Hon flyttade till Amerika och bodde i Chicago där hon träffade sin man, Paul Harris. Hennes man var advokat i Chicago och den 23 februari 1905 bildade han vad som skulle bli en världsomspännande organisation (Rotary Club). Jean blev hedersmedlem i Inner Wheel Club i Edinburgh 1946. Hon dog i Edinburgh och är begravd i Newington.
