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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Ravelston, a mansion in Corstorphine parish, Edinburghshire, near the E skirt of Corstorphine Hill, 1¼ mile WNW of Murrayfield station, and -2½ miles W of the centre of Edinburgh. The estate belonged about 1600 to George Foulis, whose son was created a baronet in 1661. Sir Archibald, second Bart., executed at Carlisle for his share in the '45, took the name of Primrose about 1700 on succeeding to the estate of Dunipace, and sold Ravelston in 1726 to Alexander Keith, W. S., a soidisant descendant of the third Earl Marischal. His son, Alexander (1705-92), built the present mansion, and here was often visited by his kinsman, Sir Walter Scott, who took from the formal old-fashioned gardens some of the features of ` Tully-Veolan ' in Waverley. His son received a baronetcy in 1822, when he acted as Knight-Marischal to George IV.; and after his death in 1832 Ravelston went to his son-in-law, Sir William Keith Murray, Bart. of Ochtertyre, whose son, Sir Patrick, sold it in 1872 to his uncle, John Murray-Gartshore, Esq. (b. 1804). The latter has made a handsome addition to the house, and holds 294 acres in Midlothian, valued at £1388 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857. See Jn. Small's Castles and Mansions of the Lothians (Edinb. 1883).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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