The architect, Ian McKerron Begg lived at No. 7 from 1954 to the end of the century. He has been described as ‘a passionate advocate for Scottish architecture and one of the leading practitioners in the conservation movement.’ Ian McKerron Begg was born in Kirkcaldy on 23 June 1925. He was educated at Kirkcaldy High…
John R. C. Horne and Winifred A. Horne were listed at No. 7 Malta Terrace in the electoral registers of 1951, 1952 and 1953. The couple had previously lived at 37 Melville Street. John Renton Cameron Horne married Winifred Alice Stanton at Bournemouth on 24 December 1938. He was born in Glasgow on 11 July…
Alexander Fraser Dawson, a chemist, lived at No. 7 between 1904 and 1950. He was born on 11 June 1866 at New Deer, Aberdeenshire, son of Thomas Dawson, a railway inspector, and Mary Ogilvie Maxwell. He registered as a chemist and druggist on 16 April 1889, and had chemist’s shop at 14 Deanhaugh Street (later…
Robert Somerville, bookseller, publisher and stationer, lived at No. 7 from 1892 to 1897. The business premises of R & H Somerville were at 9 and 10 Spring Gardens. Robert Somerville was born at Newlands, Peebles on 17 May 1831, son of Hugh Somerville and Ann Laidlaw. He was described as a shopman in 1852,…
James B. Bennett, civil engineer and surveyor, was resident at No. 7 Malta Terrace between 1897 and 1904. He then moved to 2 Thorburn Road, Colinton. James Bower Bennett was born in Falkirk on 27 July 1859, the son of George Bennett, a grocer and spirit merchant, and his wife Jane Bower. Educated at Alloa…
George Hamilton was resident at No. 7 between 1892 to 1897, living with his mother and step-father Robert Somerville. He was born at Duddingston on 08 August 1862, the second son of James Clarkson Hamilton and Helen Anderson. His father, clerk to the Colonial Life Assurance company, died in 1866. His mother remarried in 1871….
John Buchanan lived at No. 4 from 1872 to 1883, and then at No. 7 from 1883 to 1890. He was a civil engineer, born in Edinburgh about 1838, son of John Buchanan, a quarryman, and Janet Gray. The 1841 census recorded the family at 7 Bedford Street. He first appears in the Edinburgh Post…
Isabella Macfarlan, widow of Walter MacFarlan, lived at No. 7 with her family from about 1881 to 1892. The post office directories listed her as Mrs MacFarlan. She was born Isabella Burnett Aitchison, on 18 March 1849, daughter of James Aitchison and Jane Swan. The widowed Jane Swan or Aitchison lived at No. 5 between…
George Trimble and his family lived at No. 7 for about ten years, between 1868 and 1879. He was a civil engineer, born about 1828 at Thursby and baptised at St Mary Carlisle on 19 August 1828. His parents’ names were not recorded, and he appears to have been raised in the household of his…
The Cleland family occupied No. 7 for almost twenty-five years, between 1843 and 1867. Mrs William Cleland was the listed householder from 1843 until her death there on 12 April 1862. Though some directories in the 1840s listed Mrs Helen Cleland at No. 7, she was in fact Mrs Janet Cleland, widow of William Cleland,…