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
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.
James Smith was a 19th-century Scottish architect who specialised in very large country mansions.
Madeleine Smith
…murder. Her story was dramatised in the 1950 film Madeleine. Smith was the first child (of five) of an upper-middle-class family in Glasgow; her father, James Smith, was a wealthy architect, and her mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of leading neo-classical architect David Hamilton. She was born at the family…
Meiklewood House
Overtoun House from the west
The McLellan Galleries