No 8

No. 8 was described as a self-contained house in 1833, comprising dining room, drawing room and four other rooms on the two upper floors, with a kitchen and three rooms, plus closets and cellars on the ground floor.

The first resident of No. 8 Malta Terrace appears to have been Thomas Gifford of Hillswick who died there at the beginning of 1835. Though the 1822-23 Directory lists a Mrs Milne at 8 Malta Terrace, the house was described as unfinished in an advertisement dated 02 December 1822.¹ The house was still unfinished in 1833² and there was no Post Office Directory entry before 1836-37.

• Thomas Gifford
• Mrs Dr Scott
• The Telfer family
• The Baird brothers
• Alexander M’Leod
• Jane Brown
• James Taylor Mackay
• The Thorburn family
• Henry van Laun
• Edward Owen Crichton
• The Leslie family
• The Rose family

1. Advertisements. Scotland. Caledonian Mercury. 02 December 1822. p. …
2. Advertisements. Scotland. The Scotsman. 09 November 1833. p. 3