|
Queen Street, Edinburgh
Queen Street is the northernmost east-west street in Edinburgh's New Town, Edinburgh#The First New Town, First New Town. It begins in the east, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It links York Place, Edinburgh, York Place with the Moray Estate. It was named "Queen Street" after the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and was so named on James Craig (architect), James Craig's plan of the New Town issued by the Town Council in 1768. Most early maps repeat this name but others misname it Queen's Street or Queens Street. History The street forms part of James Craig's plan of 1768 for a New Town to the north of Old Town, Edinburgh, Edinburgh's Old Town and the Nor Loch, North Loch. This had three main east-west streets: Princes Street; George Street, Edinburgh, George Street; and Queen Street. Queen Street was planned as a one-sided street, facing north over then fields towards the Firth of Forth. The first 30 metres beyond the road itself was originally laid o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Street, Edinburgh - Geograph
Queen most commonly refers to: * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a kingdom * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen (band), a British rock band Queen or QUEEN may also refer to: Monarchy * Queen dowager, the widow of a king * Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother of a reigning monarch * List of queens regnant Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Queen (Marvel Comics), Adrianna "Ana" Soria * Evil Queen, from ''Snow White'' * Red Queen (Through the Looking-Glass), Red Queen (''Through the Looking-Glass'') * Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Queen of Hearts (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'') * Queen, a character from the video game ''Deltarune'' * Queen, the codename for Makoto Niijima, a character from ''Persona 5'' Gaming * Queen (chess), the most powerful chess piece that moves horizontally, vertically and diagonally * Queen (playing card), a playing card with a picture of a woman on it * Queen (carrom), a piece in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feu (land Tenure)
Feu was long the most common form of land tenure in Scotland. Conveyancing in Scots law was dominated by forms which were called feudal until the Scottish Parliament passed the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000. The word is the Scots variant of fee. The English had in 1660 abolished these tenures, with An Act Taking Away the Court of Wards ..., since 1948 known as the Tenures Abolition Act 1660. History Prior to 1832, only the vassals of the Crown had votes in parliamentary elections for the Scots counties. This favoured subinfeudation as opposed to outright sale of land. This was changed by the Scottish Reform Act 1832, which increased the franchise of males in Scotland from 4,500 to 64,447. In the Orkney and Shetland islands, land is still largely possessed as udal property, a holding derived or handed down from the time when these islands belonged to Norway. Such lands could previously be converted into feus at the will of the proprietor and held from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hay (artist)
George H. Hay RSA RSW (1831–1912) was a Scottish artist. His narrative paintings are often inspired by the works of Sir Walter Scott. In 1878 he founded the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours. Life Hay was born at Prospect Bank House in Leith (Edinburgh's harbour town) in 1831. He studied art under Robert Scott Lauder alongside William McTaggart, William Quiller Orchardson and Hugh Cameron. The latter became a close friend and they shared a studio at 12 Queen Street, Edinburgh from 1880. In 1865 he was living at 16 Picardy Place at the head of Leith Walk. He became an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1869 and a full member in 1876. He was Secretary to the RSA from 1881 to 1907. He moved to 9 Castle Terrace in 1884 but moved a year later to a Victorian terraced house at 7 Ravelston Terrace in west Edinburgh, where he lived for the rest of his life.Edinburgh Post Office directory 1910 Known works *The Student's Dream (1857) *Haymaking *Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Cameron (artist)
Hugh Cameron RSA RSW (1835–1918) was a Scottish artist. He specialised in figurative scenes. He exhibited in both the Royal Academy and Royal Scottish Academy from 1871. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 4 August 1835, the eldest son of John Cameron and his wife Isabella Armstrong. He was apprenticed to an architect in 1849. In the same year, he began classes at the Trustees Academy. He showed a flair for art and took additional classes under Robert Scott Lauder. In 1878 he co-founded the Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In 1880 he was sharing a house and studio at 12 Queen Street, Edinburgh with George Hay RSA. This is an outstanding and prestigious property. In 1900 he was living at 8 Merchiston Place. In 1910 he was living at 45 George Square, Edinburgh, a close neighbour to Percy Portsmouth. He died at the home of his married daughter, Isabella Armstrong Archibald, on Spottiswoode Street in Edinburgh on 15 July 1918 and is buried in Grange Cemetery i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lee, Lord Lee
Robert Lee, Lord Lee FRSE (1 April 1830 – 11 October 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and judge. Life Lee was born on 1 April 1830, one of seven children of John Lee (university principal), Rev John Lee, then minister of Lady Yester's Kirk, Lady Yester's Church, at 131 Princes Street in Edinburgh, looking onto Edinburgh Castle. In 1834, his father was made minister of the Old Church in St Giles Cathedral and the family moved to 12 Charlotte Square, which was then held by the Church of Scotland for use as a manse. In 1837, the family moved again when his father was made Principal of United College, St Andrews, returning to Edinburgh again in 1840 when his father became Principal of the University of Edinburgh. They then lived at 8 Queen Street, Edinburgh, Queen Street in the New Town, Edinburgh, New Town at their own expense. Lee's life then entered a period of stability. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy then studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He qualified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Dudgeon
Patrick Dudgeon of Cargen FRSE DL (1817–1895) was a British landowner, mineralogist and meteorologist. He was co-founder with Matthew Forster Heddle of the Mineralogical Society in Great Britain in 1876. He had a specialist interest in minerals embedded in rock crystal. His mineral collection was one of the largest known and a large proportion of this is now held by the Royal Scottish Museum. Life He was born in Marionville House in Restalrig, Edinburgh, the son of Robert Dudgeon, a Liverpool-born merchant, and co-founder of the Royal Insurance Company. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. He trained as a lawyer and qualified as a writer to the signet (WS). In 1840 he was living and working from 3 Queen Street in the city centre. He spent many years living in China (1833 to 1849), collecting mineral specimens both here and in Japan, which had only recently opened its borders to Europeans. Returning to Scotland in 1850 he became associated with Prof Matthew Forster He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McLachlan (architect)
John McLachlan (6 June 1843 – 13 May 1893) was a Scottish architect, based in Edinburgh operating in the late 19th century. He was a brother-in-law to Robert Morham. He has been described as a "minor master". Life He was born in Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Thornhill in Dumfries in 1843. In 1857 he was articled to the Edinburgh architect David Cousin. In Cousin's office, he worked with Robert Morham and through him met Margaret Ann Morham (1853–1906), Robert's sister, whom he married. In 1868 he started his own practice and by 1878 had prestigious offices at York Buildings in the New Town, Edinburgh, New Town. In 1884 he became the architect of the National Bank of Scotland, and in 1892 succeeded Hippolyte Blanc as architect to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Scottish Co-operative Association. Later, he formed a business association with Thomas P. Marwick and his architectural style changed from Victorian Baronial to Queen Anne Revival.Dictionary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wilson (architect)
Robert Wilson (9 September 1834 – 1 July 1901) was architect for the Edinburgh Board of Education and responsible for a high percentage of the city's schools. He is also noteworthy for involvement in several institutions aimed at improving the life of the poor and destitute in the city. Life He was the son of Patrick Wilson (architect) and Catherine Peddie. His mother died in 1843 when Robert was only eight. In 1849 he began working with his father at 2 Queen Street. He entered the Trustee's Academy (then on Picardy Place) in October 1850 to improve his drawing skills. He moved to London probably around 1860. In February 1871 his father died and he inherited his office and clients and he returned to Edinburgh. The office remained at 2 Queen Street. Robert then lived at 1 Craigie Terrace. Following the Elementary Education Act 1870 (coming into force in 1872) he was entrusted with the design of all new city schools. From 1893 he employed the highly talented John Alexan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Wilson (architect)
Patrick Wilson (c.1798 – 6 February 1871) was a British architect with a long career spanning across the 19th century from the Georgian aesthetic to the Victorian. He was a strong advocate of purpose-built housing for the poor working closely with the Rev. Thomas Chalmers. Most of his works are in Edinburgh, the most notable of which is the first ever colony style housing in the city, the Shaw Colonies, a very innovative building form. Life He was the son of Robert Wilson, cabinetmaker in Edinburgh. He married Catherine Peddie, daughter of the founding secretary of the Standard Life Assurance company, Edinburgh. She was a cousin of the architect John Dick Peddie. Their son Robert Wilson followed in his father's footsteps and also became an architect. Wilson's wife died in 1843 when their son was only eight. Wilson was then remarried to Jane Milne.Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Patrick Wilson He set up a practice at 2 Queen Street which his son Robert inherited on hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mary Erskine School
The Mary Erskine School (MES) is an all-girls Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1694 and has a roll of around 750 pupils. The majority of its pupils live in the surrounding area (Edinburgh, Lothian and Fife) but boarding facilities are available. About 3% of the pupils are boarders. The school is non-denominational but claims to have a broadly Christianity, Christian outlook. Managed by the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, Mary Erskine's is twinned with Stewart's Melville College (SMC), an all-boys' independent school in Comely Bank, Comely Bank, Edinburgh. The combined ''Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools (ESMS)'' share a co-educational Sixth Year and Junior School, split between the school's two campuses, which cater for pupils between 3-12, and 17-18 years old, respectively. In 2014 the combined Erskine Stewarts Melville school claimed to be the largest independent school in Europe. Many sports, performing arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotch Malt Whisky Society
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), founded in Edinburgh in 1983, is a membership organisation which bottles and sells single cask, single malt whisky. It purchases individual casks from more than 170 malt whisky distilleries in Scotland and throughout the world, bottles them and retails directly to its members. It also runs four private members' rooms in the UK and in several international locations. History The origins of the Society lie in Phillip "Pip" Hills' travels around the Scottish Highlands in the late 1970s, during which he sampled several whiskies drawn straight from the cask. Hills was so affected by what he tasted that, in 1978, he persuaded several acquaintances to share in the cost of a cask from the Glenfarclas distillery. Over time, the group of friends expanded to become a small syndicate and more casks were purchased, bottled and distributed to subscribing members. Coinciding with the decision to open membership to the wider public in 1983, the Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
