Some weel-kent Midlothianers

[Anona.Mouse]

Links for these people will be added when we find them . . .

James Cossar Ewart, of Craigiebield House - scientific experiments and a menagerie

The early, female paper-makers of Penicuik

Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Village

The man who invented Bovril

Sir John Clerk of Penicuik - musician and patron of the arts

And any others who come to mind!

[Anona.Mouse]

From a Certain Other Website:

Notable people connected with Penicuik include: the papermakers Agnes Campbell, Marjorie Fidler and Alexander Cowan; the founder of Finland's second city, James Finlayson; gas and oil makers John & William Young; the mathematician and seismologist Cargill Gilson Knott FRS and Penicuik's links with Japan; the zoologist James Cossar Ewart FRS; children's writer Helen Bannerman; teacher and writer Athole Cameron; Concorde's Delta Wing Designer, James Hamilton and grain scientist Geoff Palmer.

Some of these will be added later!

[SueDOnym]

Author Annie S Swan lived in Gorebridge for many years - the house where she lived is called Aldersyde, the title of one of her novels.
Also, actress Annette Crosbie (One Foot in the Grave) also lived in Gorebridge.

[Anona.Mouse]

Thanks for those, Sue - they're now officially on the list!

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