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Mellerstain House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellerstain_House Mellerstain House is a stately home north of Kelso in the Borders, Scotland. It is currently the home of the 13th Earl of Haddington. Mellerstain was built between 1725 and 1778. The architect William Adam initially designed the east and west wings for George Baillie and Lady Grisel Baillie. Work ceased after the wings were completed, and it was another 45 years before George Hamilton commissioned Robert Adam to design and build the main mansion house. Hamilton was a son of the Earl of Haddington, and he inherited the Mellerstain estate when Lady Grisel Baillie died, changing his name to Baillie as a mark of respect. The mansion house is possibly the only remaining complete building designed by Robert Adam, as most of his other works were additions to existing buildings. The Adelphi Building, in London, was a speculative neoclassical terraced housing development by the Adam brothers but is now largely demolished, leaving Mellerstain House as an important record of Robert Adam's work. The interior is a masterpiece of delicate and colourful plasterwork, comprising a small sitting room (originally a breakfast room), a beautiful library (a double cube design), a music room (originally the dining room), the main drawing room, with original silk brocade wall coverings, a small drawing room (originally a bed chamber) and a small library (originally two dressing rooms). The main entrance hall leads to a long corridor with a staircase to the bedroom floor, from which there is a small back staircase leading to a large gallery room running north to south. The house stands in 80 hectares of magnificent parkland, with an Italianate formal terraced garden at the rear, with a sweeping stretch of lawn descending to a lake. These gardens were designed around 1910 by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Tyninghame House, Haddington SEAT OF THE EARL OF HADDINGTON The house is a grand Baronial mansion, built of red sandstone, and represents an earlier house much altered by architect William Burn in 1829. The estate, long the property of the Archbishops of St. Andrews, has been owned by the Earls of Haddington since 1628. Inside, the house had some of the grandest and beautifully-furnished rooms of any house in Scotland and once held a fine collection of early portraits. However, following the death of George Baillie-Hamilton, the 12th Earl Haddington in 1986, the house and its contents were sold. In 1987, the auction house Sotheby's held a massive sale in the house, with English and continental furniture, Gothic tapestries, English and Scottish silver, European and Oriental ceramics and paintings, including the portraits, all falling under the hammer. With the risk it would be dispersed at auction, the contents of the library were purchased by the National Library of Scotland. The core of this important collection is 345 volumes which belonged to the lawyer and politician Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington (1563-1637), noted adviser to King James VI. The house has subsequently been divided into flats and the Haddingtons now live at Mellerstain in the Scottish Borders. 124
Silver bust of Sir George Baillie-Hamilton, 11th Earl of Haddington (1827-1917), K.T., T.D., A.D.C., in mess dress uniform of the Honorary Colonel of the Lothians and Berwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, hallmarked Edinburgh 1898 http://www.armoury.co.uk/milants1/mabigh38.htm The 11th Earl of Haddington was Commandant of the Lothians and Border Horse (1872-88) and of the Lothians and Berwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry (1888-1894). He was Honorary Colonel of the L.B.R.Y.C. from 1894. He was Governor of the Bank of Scotland (1863-70) and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland (1892-1893). The contents of Lord Haddington's seat, Tyninghame House in East Lothian, was sold by Sotheby's in 1987 George’s aunt, Elizabeth or Eliza Baillie (1803-1861), married (1821 at Mellerstein), John Campbell (1796-1862), 2nd Marquis Breadalbane, GM Scotland 1824-26 [above]. 75. Sir Charles Dalrymple of Newhailes [nee, Charles Dalrymple Fergusson], 1st Bart. 1893-97 Born: 15 Oct 1839 in New Hailes, Inveresk, Midlothain, Scotland Christened: 12 Nov 1839 in Kilkerran, Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland Married: Alice Mary Blair on 7 Apr 1874 http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/dd/dalrymple02.htm#con1 He took the name Dalrymple and was created 1st Bart of Newhailes Charles Dalrymple, Esq. (b. l839; suc. 1849), Conservative M. P- for Buteshire since 1868, holds 175 acres in Edinburghshire, 1698 in Haddingtonshire, and 33 in Buteshire, valued at £5410 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857. Kilkerran House, Ayrshire, Scotland Dower House of Blairquhan Estate. It was built around 1885 by Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, [father of Alice Mary Blair] and has a most beautiful situation overlooking the Water of Girvan. A short walk along the river is the attractive village of Straiton, the prettiest in Ayrshire. 125
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