Jinglin' Geordie's Legacy
Jinglin' Geordie's Legacy

Author: Brian R. W. Lockhart

Publisher: John Donald

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781862322578

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In 1621, George Heriot, the Edinburgh goldsmith and moneylender to royalty whose success earned him the nickname Jinglin' Geordie, instructed his advocate to purchase landed property in the vicinity of Edinburgh, his intention being to found a Hospitall and Seminarie of Orphans ... and fathirles childrene. School continues to provide free education to Foundationers, now sons and daughters of widows, of whom 70 currently benefit. Heriot's School has grown to educate 1500 pupils, but the memory and spirit of the Founder is not forgotten and is honoured every June in a special anniversary service.

The Transformation of Edinburgh
The Transformation of Edinburgh

Author: Richard Rodger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-03-25

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9780521602822

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This is a study of the physical transformation of Edinburgh in the nineteenth century.

The Queen's Lender
The Queen's Lender

Author: Jean Findlay

Publisher:

Published: 2024-02-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910895559

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George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI and I, moves with the Court from Edinburgh to London to take over the English throne. It is 1603. Life is a Babel of languages and glittering new wealth. The Scottish court speaks Danish, German, Middle Scots, French and Latin. King James gives Shakespeare his first secure position, and to calm the perfidious religious tensions, he commissions his translation of the Bible. George becomes wealthier than the king as he creates a fashion for hat jewels and mingles with Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones and the mysterious ambassador Luca Von Modrich. However both king and courtier bow before the phenomenal power invested in their wives.

Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750
Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750

Author: Humm Louisa Humm

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 1474455298

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This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of 'the Scottish castle' and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town. Steps decisively away from the 'Scottish castle' genre of architectureContextualises the work of Scotland's first well-documented grouping of major architects - including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynastyDocuments the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations a