James Smith was a 19th-century Scottish architect who specialised in very large country mansions.
Meiklewood House
Overtoun House from the west
The McLellan Galleries
Madeleine Smith
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Madeleine Hamilton Smith was a Scottish woman who was accused of murdering her lover with arsenic in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857. Defended by John Inglis, she was not convicted of m
James Smith (Glasgow architect)
…In March 1833 he married Janet Hamilton, daughter of David Hamilton (architect). Their children included Madeleine Smith of Blythswood Square, acquitted of poisoning her lover in 1857; and also Bessie, Janet and John Hamilton Smith. Madeleine married and died in New York…
The building where Smith and her fiancé Minnoch each had apartments.
L'Angelier's rooming house
A sketch of the trial proceedings against Smith
6-7 Blythswood Square. Madeleine Smith's apartment house. 2020.