Kenneth McLeay RSA lived at No. 3 from about 1868 to 1879. He was born in Oban, in 1802. He studied at the Trustees’ Academy in Edinburgh. He was a Foundation Associate Member of the Scottish Academy – and became RSA from 1839
He was a chiefly a watercolour portrait painter, producing both miniature and full size portraits. He is recorded as a portrait painter in the Edinburgh trade directories from 1822 until 1878, living at twelve different addresses over this period. He also produce a series of watercolours of the Highland Clans for the Royal Family, published in 1870.
Kenneth MacLeay exhibited photographs in many of the PSS Exhibitions from 1856 to 1864. He became a professional photographer from 1859 to 1863.