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Melville Castle by night Entrance front of Melville Castle. Melville Castle is a three-storey Gothic castellated mansion situated less than a mile (>2 km) west-south-west of Dalkeith, Midlothian, near the North Esk.
He was also involved with work on many country houses in Scotland, including Blair Castle and Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, Loudoun Castle in Ayrshire, and Stobo Castle in Peeblesshire. [2] He is buried near the centre of New Calton Cemetery, close to his works on Waterloo Place. A son, William Elliot (1796–1828) lies with him.
Melville Castle, home of Henry Dundas. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British prime minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century.
A fanciful castle of sorts along the Hudson River, Lyndhurst is one of the country's finest Gothic Revival mansions. It was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis and was home to noteworthy ...
Clan Melville is a Lowland Scottish clan. [1] The clan does not currently have a chief and is therefore considered an Armigerous clan registered with the Lyon Court . History
The house has a moat and a 13m basement swimming pool.
An atypical but inventive piece of Gothic architecture is the completely round Bellver Castle on Mallorca island, built in 1300-14 for James II of Majorca by architect Pere Salvà. [ 2 ] In France, the late medieval period — especially the time of the Hundred Years' War — saw the construction of a large number of new, feudal castles and ...
Her father, David Rannie, was a Captain in the British merchant service, and amassed a considerable fortune in India. [2] Her mother was Elizabeth Bayley. A younger sister, Janet, was born around 1753. [2] In 1760, with the fortune amassed through 30 years of trading with the East India Company in Calcutta, her father purchased Melville Castle ...