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Bruntsfield House in 1897 Bruntsfield House in 2009. J.Stewart-Smith states that "Bruntsfield Manor", or as it is known today, Bruntsfield House, had been the dower house of each successive bride of the Lauders of Haltoun for 226 years. Sir William Lauder of Haltoun (d.
Path by Bruntsfield Links. The area is a favourite spot for dog-walkers and becomes an overspill area when crowds gather in the Meadows during warm Summer weather. The west section of the Links next to Whitehouse Loan, where a former school building (the original Boroughmuir School, later James Gillespie's School for Girls) has been converted to a University Hall of Residence, also attracts ...
Helen Millar Lowe MBE (10 December 1897 – 6 November 1997) was a Scottish accountant, charity worker and activist. She was one of the first women to become chartered accountants in Scotland, [1] and conducted a successful campaign to ensure that the Bruntsfield Hospital for Women and the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh remained staffed exclusively by qualified female ...
The Bruntsfield lands, held originally by the King's Sergeant, Richard Broune (hence Brounisfield, later Bruntsfield), were granted by Robert II to Alan de Lawdre in 1381. The Lauder family sold them to the merchant John Fairlie in 1603, whose family sold them in turn to Sir George Warrender, a Bailie and later Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in 1695.
Bruntsfield Hospital was a women's hospital based in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland. History. Plaque and tablet on the hospital building Sophia Jex ...
Sir George Warrender, 1st Baronet (c. 1658 – 4 March 1721) of Bruntsfield and Lochend, Edinburgh was a Scottish merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Bruntsfield House in 1897. Warrender was the only son of George Warrender and his wife Margaret Cunninghame. His father died when he was an infant. [1]
Marchmont (Scottish Gaelic: Marc-Mhonadh [1]) is a mainly residential area of Edinburgh, Scotland.It lies roughly one mile to the south of the Old Town, separated from it by The Meadows and Bruntsfield Links.
The game of golf is thought to date back much before this, and golf was understood to have been played on the Bruntsfield Links since at least the 17th century. The first extant minute of the society is dated from 8 April 1773, but it is first recorded as being established in 1735 in an 1834 edition of the Edinburgh Almanac.