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Alexander Laing (architect)
Alexander Laing (13 June 1752 – 10 September 1823)[1] was a Scottish architect who was mainly involved in house and castle design.  LifeHe appears to be the son of Thomas Laing (d.1774), a knife- and tool-maker who lived near the Theatre on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.[2] Laing trained as a stonemason, and (as was typical in that age) was also styled "architect", and was based in Edinburgh;[3] He is first listed in Williamson's Edinburgh Directory of 1774 as a "Mason" living at Theatre Row (on the south side of the Royal Mile near the now Museum of Childhood).[4] Laing married three times: first to Charlotte Polson in 1772, then to Margaret Turnbull in 1786, and finally to Beatrix Currie in 1789.[1] He had a son, Francis (1 May 1773 – 24 November 1861),[5][6] with Charlotte. He also had a daughter, Jane, who married Captain Alexander Robertson in 1808.[7] In 1795, Laing purchased the James Adam-designed 7 York Place, the manse for the adjacent St George's Chapel in Edinburgh, where he lived until 1818.[8] He left York Place in 1818.[9] He moved to 6 Gayfield Place (a house of his own design) at the top of Leith Walk and was still living there in 1823.[10] Laing died in Portobello in 1823, aged 71.[5][1] Known worksLaing's works include:[11]   
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