Note 235 — THE CANONGATE.
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Subjoined is a list of persons of note who lived in the Canongate in the early days of the late Mr Chalmers Izett, whose memory extended back to 1769:
‘DUKES.
Hamilton.
Queensberry.
EARLS.
Breadalbane.
Hyndford.
Wemyss.
Balcarras.
Moray.
Dalhousie.
Haddington.
Mar.
Srathmore.
Traquair.
Selkirk.
Dundonald.
Kintore.
Dunmore.
Seafield.
Panmure.
COUNTESSES.
Tweeddale.
Lothian.
LORDS.
Haddo.
Colvill.
Blantyre.
Nairn.
Semple.
A. Gordon.
Cranstoun.
L. OF SESSION.
Eskgrove.
Hailes.
Prestongrange.
Kames.
Milton.
Montgomery.
Bannatyne.
BARONETS.
Sir J. Grant.
Sir J. Suttie.
Sir J. Whiteford.
Sir J. Stewart.
Sir J. Stirling.
Sir J. Sinclair, Glorat.
Sir J. Halkett.
Sir James Stirling.
Sir D. Hay.
Sir B. Dunbar.
Sir J. Scott, Ancrum.
Sir R. Anstruther.
Sir J. Sinclair, Ulbster.
COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF.
General Oughton.
General Skene.
Lord A. Gordon.
Lord Moira.
EMINENT MEN.
Adam Smith.
Dr Young.
Dugald Stewart.
Dr Gardner.
Dr Gregory.
BANK.
Douglas, Heron, and Company.
LADIES’ BOARDING-SCHOOL.
Mrs Hamilton, Chessels’s Court.
PRINCIPAL INNS.
Ramsay’s, St Mary’s Wynd.
Boyd’s, Head of Canongate.
‘Two coaches went down the Canongate to Leith—one hour in going, and one hour in returning.’