Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . d his wife, on the 9th February,1795 ; she was his cousin Catharine, daughter ofthe Rev. James Bannatyne, a city minister. 27^ OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Argyle Square. Many professors succeeded Blair as tenants ofthe same house; among them, Alexander Chris-tison, Professor of Humanity, between i8o5 and1820, father of the great chemist. Professor SirRobert Christison, Bart. [ In the north-western of the squarewas the mansion of Sir George Suttie, Bart, of that ilk, and Balgone in Haddingtonshire, whomarried Jane
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . d his wife, on the 9th February,1795 ; she was his cousin Catharine, daughter ofthe Rev. James Bannatyne, a city minister. 27^ OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Argyle Square. Many professors succeeded Blair as tenants ofthe same house; among them, Alexander Chris-tison, Professor of Humanity, between i8o5 and1820, father of the great chemist. Professor SirRobert Christison, Bart. [ In the north-western of the squarewas the mansion of Sir George Suttie, Bart, of that ilk, and Balgone in Haddingtonshire, whomarried Janet, daughter of William Grant, Lord j the two squares which was described as pre\ailingin their amusements—tea-drinking and little fetesat a time when manners in Edinburgh were starched,stately, and old-fashioned, as the customs and ideasthat were retained, when dying out elsewhere. On the east side of this square was the oldTrades Maiden Hospital, a plain substantialedifice, consisting of a central block, having a greatarched door, to which a flight of steps OLD HOUSES, SOCIEIV. Prestongrange; and here also resided his son, SirJames, who, in 1818, succeeded his aunt, JanetGrant, Countess of Hyndford, as heir of the lineof Prestongrange, and assumed thereby in conse-quence the additional name and arms of neighbour was Lady Mar) Cochrane,daughter of Thomas sixth Earl of Dundonald, whodied unmarried at an old age. In 1795 among the residents in .\rgyle Squarewere Sir John Darymple, the Ladies Rae, Sutton(dowager), and Reay, Elizabeth Fairlie (dowager ofGeorge Lord Reay, who died in 1768). Isolatedfrom the rising New Town on the north by thegreat mass of the ancient city, and viewing it witha species of antagonism and rivalry, we may wellimadne the exclusiveness of the little coteries in and wings, with a frontage of about 150 feet. Itwas intended for the daughters of decayed trades-men, and was a noble institution, founded in 1704by the charitable Mrs. Mar
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