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Alexander Laing (architect)

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A Treatise on the Law of Scotland, respecting the Erection, Union, and Disjunction of Parishes; the Manses and Glebes of the Parochial Clergy, and the Patronage of Churches
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He had a son, Francis (1 May 1773 – 24 November 1861), with Charlotte. He also had a daughter, Jane, who married Captain Alexander Robertson in 1808.
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Laing married three times: first to Charlotte Polson in 1772, then to Margaret Turnbull in 1786, and finally to Beatrix Currie in 1789.
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He appears to be the son of Thomas Laing (d.1774), a knife- and tool-maker who lived near the Theatre on Edinburgh's
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He left York Place in 1818. He moved to 6 Gayfield Place (a house of his own design) at the top of
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The Snell Exhibitions: From the University of Glasgow to Balliol College, Oxford
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Two villas at Gayfield Square (1791/2) 6 Gayfield Sq and 6 Gayfield Pl
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Portobello, Edinburgh

Peterhead
Old Parish Church
Royal Mile
stonemason
Edinburgh
Royal Mile
James Adam
7 York Place
Leith Walk
Portobello



Abbey St Bathans
Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet
Dalmahoy
Dalmahoy
Steeple, Town House
Inverness
Inverness Royal Academy
Brechin Castle
Fife
Darnaway Castle
South Queensferry
York Place, Edinburgh
Gavinton
Royal Northern Infirmary
Dysart

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