Lady Grizel Baillie, née Hume, was a Scottish gentlewoman and songwriter. Her accounting ledgers, in which she kept details about her household for more than 50 years, provide information about social life in Scotland in the eighteenth century.
Engraving by G. J. Stodart after Maria Verelst portrait, Mellerstain House
The lantern teenaged Hume used when visiting her father in hiding, Museum of Scotland
Marchmont House lies on the east side of the village of Greenlaw, and near to a church in Polwarth in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is about five miles south west of Duns, about 19 miles (31 km) west of Berwick-upon-Tweed and about 40 miles (64 km) south east of Edinburgh. Situated in a gently undulating landscape, the estate is intersected by Blackadder Water, and its tributary burns. With the Lammermuir Hills to the north and views towards the Cheviot Hills in the south, this part of Berwickshire, sometimes referred to as the Merse, is scenic and contains rich agricultural land.
The front or east elevation of Marchmont House
The rear or west elevation showing the mix of 18th, 19th, and early 20th Century architectural elements
Thomas Clayton's plaster work on the ceiling in the Saloon
The avenue looking east, thought to be the longest in Scotland
