35 Albany Street
1813 – 1821 Alexander and Mary (neé Balfour) Brunton
Alexander - Professor of Oriental Languages and Mary - Author
1821 – 1824 Mrs Hunter of Blackness
Widow of James Hunter
1824 – 1844 Alexander Mudie
Surgeon
1845 – 1850 James Richmond
Retired army surgeon
1850 – 1865 Major-General Frederick Hope and Eliza (neé Cockburn) Hope
Retired army officer
1865 – 1870 George Clark Ross
Agent for the Scottish National Insurance Company
1870 – 1882 Lodgings
These were run by Ellen Jackson, a widow with one son. It may well have been that actors and entertainers seeking ‘digs’ when performing in Edinburgh were directed to Mrs Jackson’s Lodging House, for on the days of both the 1871 and 1881 census performers were lodging here.
1883 – 1888 John Chisholm
Publisher, bookseller and stationer
1892 – Catholic Cathedral School, later renamed St Mary’s Roman Catholic School
Also at Number 37
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