Traditions of Edinburgh . House, the well-known supporters of this noble family, which figures over a finely moulded door in Blairs Close. The coronet will readily be supposed to point to the time when the Marquis of Huntly was the principal honour of the family—that is, previous to 1684, when the title of Duke of Gordon was conferred.*. * George, sixth Earl of Huntly, took his last illness, June 1636, in his house in theCanongate. George, the first duke, who had held out the Castle at the Revolution, diedDecember 1716, at his house in the Citadel of Leith, where he appears to have occasionall
Traditions of Edinburgh . House, the well-known supporters of this noble family, which figures over a finely moulded door in Blairs Close. The coronet will readily be supposed to point to the time when the Marquis of Huntly was the principal honour of the family—that is, previous to 1684, when the title of Duke of Gordon was conferred.*. * George, sixth Earl of Huntly, took his last illness, June 1636, in his house in theCanongate. George, the first duke, who had held out the Castle at the Revolution, diedDecember 1716, at his house in the Citadel of Leith, where he appears to have occasionallyresided for some years. I should suppose the house on the Castle-hill to have beeninhabited by the family in the interval between these dates. The Citadel seems to have been a little nest of aristocracy, of the Cavalier party. In 1745,one of its inhabitants was Dame Magdalen Bruce of Kinross, widow of the baronet who had 30 TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. In more recent times, this substantial mansion was the abodeof Mr Baird of Newbyth; and here it was that the late gallantSir David Baird, the hero of Seringapatam, was born andbrought up. Returning in advanced life from long foreignservice, this distinguished soldier came to see the home of hisyouth on the Castle-hill. The respectable individual whom Ifound occupying the house in 1824
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