19 Albany Street

1897 – 1942 George Keppie PatersonDr George Keppie Paterson moved here from Number 22,. The house, with stables and coach-house, cost him £1,300. After studying at Edinburgh university with honours in 1882, Paterson undertook further studies in Berlin and Vienna. In 1891, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and in 1895 a Fellow. For ten years he was assistant to Sir Alexander Young Simpson, the holder of the chair of midwifery and diseases of women in Edinburgh University. Paterson was one of the oldest members of the British Medical Association, his membership extending over 58 years. In 1903, he became Honorary Secretary of the old Edinburgh North-East Division, an appointment he held until 1911, and, later, Chairman,of the new Edinburgh and Leith Division. For more than half a century he was associated with the Livingstone Dispensary in the Cowgate (photo 1931), of which he was consulting obstetrician and physician for maternity welfare at the time of his death.

One of Dr Paterson's greatest interests was medical missions. He travelled extensively in North Africa, Egypt, Palestine, and the West Indies. He joined the Edinburgh Medical Missionary-Society in 1890, and was for several years its Hon. Treasurer and Vice-President. He also served as was Vice-President of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society for a time. He had a keen interest in music, including running a choir in his dispensary.

He died here in 1942.

1943 - around 1952 Ministry of Works Valuation Office Agency

During the Second World War, the agency valued property destroyed by enemy action.

1954 - 1970s? Extension to the offices of James C Cessford

See Number 23.

1965 – 1970s Econoprint

Print company.

early 1970s to at least 1980 Matthew Hamilton and McLean

Architects. Established by Bernard Laurie Matthew who graduated in 1951. He then practised as Matthew Hamilton & McLean Architects in partnership with William Clive Braid Hamilton and Alexander Hall Maclean.

1978 Malta Sunshine Offices

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