Edmonstone

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Edmondstone House, a mansion, with finely wooded grounds, in Newton parish, Edinburghshire, 3½ miles SE of Edinburgh. The estate belonged, from 1248 and earlier, to the family of Edmonstone, who are commonly said to have come to Scotland in 1067 with St Margaret, the queen of Malcolm Ceannmor, but who probably were a branch of the powerful race of Seton. (See Duntreath.) From them it passed, about the beginning of the 17th century, to the Raits; and from them, by marriage, in 1671, to John Wauchope (1633-1709), a cadet of the Niddry Wauchopes, who, in 1672, on becoming a lord of session, assumed the title of Lord Edmonstone. Its present holder, Sir John Don-Wauchope of Newton, eighth Bart. since 1667 (b. 1816; suc. 1862), owns 1350 acres in the shire, valued at £6310 per annum, including £267 for minerals. A hamlet of Edmonstone, with a public school, stands a little to the E.

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