Jerviswood, an estate in Lanark parish, Lanarkshire, on the left bank of Mouse Water, 1½ mile N by E of the town. By the Livingstouns it was sold in the middle of the 17th century to George Baillie, whose son, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, entitled sometimes the ' Scottish Sydney, ' was hanged at Edinburgh for alleged high-treason in 1684, and whose sixth descendant, George Baillie of Jerviswood and Mellerstain, in 1858 succeeded his second cousin as tenth Earl of Haddington.Ord. Sur., sh. 23, 1865. See Tyninghame.
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