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

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