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Prestongrange Ceiling In Merchiston Tower (detail)
Prestongrange is a place in East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, situated between Musselburgh to the west, and Prestonpans to the east. The place name derives from "Preston", meaning "priest's town", and a grange (or granary A granary, also known as a grain house and historically as a granarium in Latin, is a post-harvest storage building primarily for grains or seeds. Granaries are typically built above the ground to prevent spoilage and protect the stored grains o ...) which was worked by the Cistercian monks of Newbattle Abbey. In the early 17th century, Mark Ker took possession of the lands from the abbey, and after the Grant Suttie family took over, the Prestongrange Colliery was no longer productive and fell into disuse. In 1830, George Grant-Suttie, Sir George Grant Suttie leased Prestongrange Colliery to Matthias Dunn, the Inspector of Mines. Prestongrange House This fine mansion-house was partly rebuilt by Mark Kerr (abbot), Mark Kerr and Helen Leslie, Lady Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beam Engine, Prestongrange Colliery
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George Grant-Suttie
The Suttie, later Grant-Suttie Baronetcy, of Balgone in the County of Haddington, is a title originally created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 5 May 1702 for George Suttie. The third and fourth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for Haddingtonshire. The latter assumed the additional surname of Grant on succeeding to the estates of his aunt, Janet, Countess of Hyndford, daughter of William Grant, Lord Prestongrange. Francis Grant-Suttie, second son of the fifth Baronet and grandfather of the eighth Baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy. A large number of the family lie buried in the old parish churchyard of North Berwick. The graves lie in three locations: within the church ruins; on the south side of the church; and against the south boundary. All graves are in very poor condition. Suttie, later Grant-Suttie baronets, of Balgone (1702) * Sir George Suttie, 1st Baronet (died 1710) * Sir James Suttie, 2nd Baronet (1692–1736) *Sir George Sutti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grant, Lord Prestongrange
William Grant, Lord Prestongrange (1701 – 23 May 1764), was a Scottish politician and judge. Grant was procurator for the Church of Scotland and Clerk to the General Assembly in 1731. He campaigned against patronage in the Church. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1737 and promoted to Lord Advocate in 1746. He was Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs from 1747 to 1754, and carried bills for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions, wardholding and for annexation of forfeited estates to the Crown. He was appointed a Lord of Session and Justiciary as Lord Prestongrange in 1754, and a Commissioner of annexed estates in 1755. Biography William Grant was the second surviving son of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, by his first wife, Jean, daughter of the Rev. William Meldrum of Meldrum, Aberdeenshire. He was admitted an advocate on 24 February 1722, and on 13 May 1731 was appointed Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and principal c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prestongrange Parish Church
Prestongrange Parish Church is a Church of Scotland kirk situated in the former mining town of Prestonpans in East Lothian. Constructed in 1596, it is one of the first churches built in Scotland following the Scottish Reformation of 1560. In 1606, Prestonpans was created a parish in its own right, after centuries as part of the parish of Tranent. A church had existed south of Prestonpans since the 12th century, administered by the canons of Holyrude Abbey. However, that church, near Northfield House, was destroyed in 1544 by the earl of Hertford during the Rough Wooing campaign against the Scots after their refusal to allow Princess Mary of Scotland (later Mary, Queen of Scots) to marry Henry's son, Prince Edward. Notable ministers John Davidson, formerly of Liberton in Edinburgh was appointed first minister at the new church and financed its construction. The land was gifted by the Hamilton family, the lairds of Preston. Rev. Davidson was known for his outspokenness, un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Musselburgh Golf Club
The Royal Musselburgh Golf Club is a golf club at Prestongrange House, Prestongrange near Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, on the B1361. Between 1774 and 1926, the club was based at Levenhall Links, Musselburgh. History The first golf clubs were founded in the 18th century. The first was the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, instituted in 1706, followed by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1744, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1754, and the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club in 1774. These clubs gradually accepted some responsibility for the links on which they played. What is now the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club was established in 1774 as the Musselburgh Golf Club, and the Old Club Cup was played for the first time. It is the oldest golf trophy that has been played for continuously in the world, and it can be seen in the Clubhouse. In 1811 the first Lady Golfer competition took place, and in 1834 the club issued a new set of rules. The RMGC is the fift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prestongrange House
Prestongrange House is a historic house at Prestongrange near Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, UK. It is situated near to two other historic houses, Hamilton House, East Lothian, Hamilton House and Northfield House, East Lothian, Northfield House. Prestongrange House is now the site of Royal Musselburgh Golf Club. The house is set in a thickly wooded park and is in the Scottish baronial style. History Prestongrange estate was passed from Newbattle Abbey, whose monks had started coal mining at Prestongrange by the 13th century, to the Kerrs, later Marquess of Lothian, Earls of Lothian. Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, received a ratification in 1587 which mentions the manor of Prestongrange. In 1609 the property was sold to the Morrison family, with Sir Alexander Morrison of Prestongrange being mentioned in sources from the 1640s, then William Morrison of Prestongrange in the 1690s and 1700s. In 1746 the estate was bought by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange who was Lord Advoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum
Prestongrange Museum is an industrial heritage museum at Prestongrange between Musselburgh and Prestonpans on the B1348 on the East Lothian coast, Scotland. Founded as the original site of the National Mining Museum, its operation reverted to East Lothian Council Museum Service (the current operators) in 1992. History of the site For centuries, Prestongrange was a place of intense industrial activity. A harbour, glass works, pottery, colliery, and brickworks have all left their marks on the landscape. Monks from Newbattle Abbey first mined for coal in the area in the 12th century. From that, a coal mining industry developed and the first shaft of Prestongrange's last mine was sunk in 1830. A beam engine, modified by Harvey and Company of Hoyle in Cornwall and shipped to Scotland in 1874, pumped water out of the pit in three stages at 2,955 litres a minute. The mine was eventually closed in 1963. Cradled by woodland with views out over the Firth of Forth, the site is now a ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Playfair
William Henry Playfair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (15 July 1790 – 19 March 1857) was a prominent Scottish architect in the 19th century who designed the Eastern, or Third, New Town, Edinburgh, New Town and many of Edinburgh's Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical landmarks. Life Playfair was born on 15 July 1790 in Russell Square, London to Jessie Graham and James Playfair (architect), James Playfair. His father was also an architect, and his uncles were the mathematician John Playfair and William Playfair, an economist and pioneer of statistical graphics. After his father's death he was sent to Edinburgh to be educated by his uncle John Playfair. He went on to study at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1809. He was first articled to the architect William Stark (architect), William Stark and when Stark died in 1813, he went to London. In the 1830s Playfair is listed as living at 17 Great Stuart Street on the prestigious Moray Estate in West E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Morison, Lord Prestongrange
Alexander Morison (or Morrison), Lord Prestongrange (1579–1631) was a 17th-century Scottish judge, Senator of the College of Justice and Lord President of the Court of Session. Life He was the son of John Morison of Saughtonhall (1558–1615), a burgess and treasurer of the city of Edinburgh, and his wife, Katherine Preston, daughter of Sir John Preston, Lord President of the Court of Session, and second wife Lilias Gilbert. He was born in 1579 probably in Saughton Hall, just west of Edinburgh. John Preston (his grandfather) had built Prestongrange House, a fine mansion west of Prestonpans, and this house came to belong to Alexander through inheritance around 1600. He trained as a lawyer at the University of Edinburgh under Henry Charteris, graduating with an MA in 1598. He passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1604. In February 1626 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice and took the title Lord Prestongrange. In 1627 he was elected Rector of the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saughton
Saughton () is a suburb of the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, bordering Broomhouse, Edinburgh, Broomhouse, Stenhouse, Edinburgh, Stenhouse, Longstone, Edinburgh, Longstone and Carrick Knowe. In Scots language, Lowland Scots, a "sauch" is a willow. The Water of Leith flows by here. It is the location of Edinburgh (HM Prison), HM Prison Edinburgh, known colloquially as "Saughton Prison", in the south of the district. The A71 road, one of the main city arteries, runs through the area – it is known here as Calder Road, becoming Stenhouse Road and Gorgie Road further east. Saughton Park, a large public park, has facilities including Scotland's largest skatepark; it is located on the opposite side of Stenhouse from the core of the Saughton neighbourhood. Actually situated in the Broomhouse area and fronting onto Broomhouse Drive, Saughton House is a large Government office, built in the 1950s, which houses the Scottish Government, Scottish Courts Service, and a number of other Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Leslie, Lady Newbattle
Helen Leslie, Lady Newbattle (1520-1594) was a Scottish aristocrat and supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was a daughter of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes and Margaret Crichton. The surname is sometimes spelled "Lesley". She first married Gilbert Seton of Parbroath, and secondly, Mark Ker of Newbattle. In early modern Scotland married women did not change their surnames. During the "Lang Siege" of Edinburgh Castle, in January 1572 she loaned money to William Kirkcaldy of Grange to pay the wages of soldiers fighting for the cause of Mary, Queen of Scots. She took a packet of gold buttons from the jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots as a pledge from James Mosman. After the castle fell in June 1573, she brought the queen's buttons to the English commander William Drury at his lodging in Leith. He took the buttons and paid her back. From 1577 Helen Leslie and her husband rented a house on the High Street of Edinburgh from James Marjoribanks. She was involved in the managemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kerr (abbot)
Mark Kerr or Ker (died 1584) was a Scottish churchman who became abbot of Newbattle, and then joined the reformers. Life Kerr was the second son of Sir Andrew Kerr of Cessford, by Agnes, daughter of Robert Crichton, 2nd Lord Crichton of Sanquhar. In 1546 he was promoted abbot of Newbattle, and on renouncing Catholicism in 1560 continued to hold the benefice ''in commendam''. Kerr was one of those who, on 26 April 1560, signed at Edinburgh the contract to defend the "evangell of Christ'". Subsequently, he was presented to the vicarage of West Linton, Peeblesshire, by the abbot and convent of Kelso, and his presentation was confirmed by the commissioners 4 August 1567, in opposition to one made by the crown. At a parliament held at Edinburgh on 15 December of this year he was appointed one of a commission to inquire into the jurisdiction that should pertain to the kirk. On 20 April 1569 he was nominated an extraordinary lord of session, and he was also chosen a member of the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
