Cape Manor 25 May 2016 New Town Manor

In The Beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town,_Edinburgh
The New Town was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850.

1707: The Act of Union is passed, merging the Scottish and English Parliaments, thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.[8]
1760: George III becomes King of Britain.
1769–1770: James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia.
1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China.
1775–1783: American Revolutionary War.
1776: Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt.
1776: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1776: Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations.
1778: James Cook becomes the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands.
1781: The city of Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers.
1785–1795: The Northwest Indian War is fought between the United States and Native Americans.
1789–1799: French Revolution.
1792–1802: The French Revolutionary Wars lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from 1803-1815.
1792: The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded.
1799: Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
1805: The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas, a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.
1807: Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.
1809: Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.
1810: The trumpet gets valves.
1812: The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.
1812–1815: War of 1812 between the United States and Britain; ends in a draw, except that Native Americans lose power
1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1836: Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.
1837: Telegraphy patented.
1837: Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist.
1845–1849: The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.
1848–1858: California Gold Rush.

Route
Picardy Place
Conan Dolyle (11), Sir Picardy, Village
York Place
Nasmyth 47, Raeburn 32, Lord Newton (22 convivial)
Queen Street
Professor James Simpson (52)
{Down Dublin Street}
Drummond Place
Lord Provost George Drummond, Compton McKenzie (31)
Scotland Street
Tunnel
Cumberland Street
Great King Street
Thomas de Quincey (9), JM Barrie Peter Pan (3), Howard Hotel
{Up Howe Street}
Heriot Row
RLS (17)
{Down India Street}


 
- Notes

In The Beginning
Lord Provost George Drummond
Drummond is buried in the Canongate Churchyard
Drummond was also a Freemason
Drummond is best known as the driving force behind the building of Edinburgh's 'New Town'.
identified the need for the North Bridge as the gateway to the New Town, laying its foundation stone in 1763.
Drummond Street
Drummond Place

Earthen Mound, which began as a tip for material excavated during construction of the New Town

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/29/story-of-cities-10-edinburgh-new-town-old-town-scottish-enlightenment-james-craig
One night in September 1751, a six-storey tenement in Edinburgh’s city centre collapsed without warning. Such events were by no means unusual in the Scottish capital, but in this case the building was no slum – it had stood on one of the city’s grandest streets, and the fatalities were from some of Scotland’s most prestigious families.

Street Names
(family affair, George, charlotte, queen, princes (sons), Frederick (dad), Hanover, Great King, Royal Crescent, Cumberland (brother))
George Street, after the king at the time, George III (4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820). Queen Street named after his wife
The House of Hanover is a German royal dynasty that ruled the Electorate of Hanover and then the Kingdom of Hanover. It succeeded the House of Stuart as monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714 and ruled the United Kingdom until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.
St. Giles Street (Princes) to the south, after the city's patron saint.
St. Andrew's Square and St. George's Square were the names chosen to represent the union of Scotland and England. The idea was continued with the smaller Thistle Street (for Scotland's national emblem) between George Street and Queen Street, and Rose Street (for England's emblem) between George Street and Princes Street.
King George rejected the name St. Giles Street, St Giles being the patron saint of lepers and also the name of a slum area or 'rookery' on the edge of the City of London. It was therefore renamed Princes Street after his sons.
Saint Giles is the patron saint of cripples and is also invoked as a saint for childhood fears, convulsions, depression
The name of St. George's Square was changed to Charlotte Square, after the Queen, to avoid confusion with the existing George Square on the South Side of the Old Town. The westernmost blocks of Thistle Street were renamed Hill Street and Young Street, making Thistle Street half the length of Rose Street. The three streets completing the grid, Castle, Frederick and Hanover Streets, were named for the view of the castle, King George's father Frederick, and the name of the royal family respectively.
http://www.heriotrow.org/history/edinburgh-s-new-town/
They draw on Britishness (Northumberland and Cumberland Streets), royalty (Great King Street), empire (India and Jamaica Streets), national heroes (Nelson and Howe Streets) and more local notables (Heriot Row, Dundas Street and Drummond Place). (Henry Dundas: dominating the affairs of the East India Company)
Cumberland Street is named for King George III’s brother, the Duke of Cumberland. In 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie was hiding in the Highlands following his defeat at the Battle of Culloden. ‘Butcher’ Cumberland, as the Duke came to be known, ordered that no quarter be shown to Charlie’s supporters, and pursued the Prince remorselessly across the Highlands, encouraging his men to burn, pillage, rape and murder as they went.

Cape Members
The Painter Henry Raeburn (Discovery) bought the Deanhough estate in the Northwest of the New Town and started development in 1813 with Ann Street named after his wife
Nasmyth (Thumb, landscape painter, Bernard’s well) died at home, 47 York Place (roughly opposite the house of Sir Henry Raeburn (32)) in Edinburgh. He was buried in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street, 1830-31 lived in 11 Howe Street
Sir Henry Raeburn died in St Bernard's House (17 St Bernards Crescent), He is buried in St. Cuthbert's churchyard
Rennie died on 4 October 1821 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
James Watt (Hermione)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/scotland_edinburgh_01.shtml
The Carron Iron Company near Falkirk - the largest business in Scotland - produced an array of fancy domestic iron wares for the New Town, including cast iron grates to designs by Robert Adam. All of these developments generated a significant surge in well-paid working class employment. There was a parallel demand for professional people, many of whom lived in the New Town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt
Despite a potentially workable design (steam engine), there were still substantial difficulties in constructing a full-scale engine. This required more capital, some of which came from Black. More substantial backing came from John Roebuck, the founder of the celebrated Carron Iron Works near Falkirk, with whom he now formed a partnership.
Made fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22–24 George Street 
Sir Picardy, Saudi Arabia return English teacher lodge 36, Grubb past master, John McDonald colonies, stockbridge, wife handed tie back in, Hector, Tay, always together, Tay died, McDonald stopped attending, Jimmy Grubb gave pseudonym

Famous Residents
http://www.scotlandmag.com/magazine/issue43/12009159.html
Charlotte Square Alexander Graham Bell was born at Number 16
Joseph Lister at Number 9, Lister introduced sterile surgery
1st Earl Haig at Number 34.
Bute House, the official residence of Scotland’s First Minister, is at Number 6.
Number 7 Charlotte Square was at one time the home of the Chief of the Lamont Clan. Now administered by the National Trust for Scotland, the interior has been preserved as a typical example of a Georgian town house
Number 17 Heriot Row was the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson. It was from his small bedroom at the top of this house that he watched ‘Leerie’, the lamplighter immortalised in his poem of that name, carry out his duties each night.
Sir Compton McKenzie, author of Whisky Galore, lived at Number 31 Drummond Place during the 1960s.
Nearby in Great King Street,Thomas de Quincey spent four years at Number 9, swamped by debt and a slave to the drug which gave its name to his most famous work Confessions of an Opium Eater. JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, lived as a young man at Number 3
Professor James Simpson (Simpson discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully popularized the drug for use in medicine) lived at 52 Queen Street. In 1847 he, and a few of his chosen assistants, fell asleep after inhaling chloroform through a napkin, an experiment which led him to pioneer its use in surgery, particularly his own specialist area of gynaecology
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place
Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847.[13] The family home was at 16 South Charlotte Street, and has a stone inscription marking it as Alexander Graham Bell's birthplace.

http://www.edin-bahai.org.uk/centre/history/cassells-old-and-new-edinburgh-the-northern-new-town-p185-209.htm

Picardie Village
It would appear that so early as 1730 the Governors of Heriot's Hospital, as superiors of the barony of Broughton, had sold five acres of land at the head of Broughton Loan to the city, for the behoof of refugees or their descendants who had come from France, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. A colony of these emigrants, principally silk weavers, had been for some time attempting to cultivate mulberry trees on the slope of Moultree's Hill, but without success, owing to the variable nature of the climate.
The position of the houses forming the village of Picardie, as these poor people named it, after their native province, is distinctly shown in the map of 1787, occupying nearly the site of the north side of the present Picardy Place, which after the Scottish Board of Manufacturers acquired the ground, was built in 1809.

York Place, Lord Newton
No. 22 was the house of Lord Newton, known as the wearer of "Covington's gown," in memory of the patriotism and humanity displayed by the latter in defending the Jacobite prisoners on their trial at Carlisle in 1747. His judicial talents and social eccentricities formed the subject of many anecdotes. He participated largely in the bacchanalian propensities so prevalent among the legal men of his time, and was frequently known to put "three lang craigs" (i.e. long-necked bottles of claret) "under his belt" after dinner, and thereafter dictate to his clerk a paper of more than sixty pages. The MS. would then be sent to press, and the proofs be corrected next morning at the bar of the Inner House.
He would often spend the whole night in convivial indulgence at the Crochallan Club, perhaps be driven home to York Place about seven in the morning, sleep for two hours, and be seated on the bench at the usual hour. The French traveller Simond relates his surprise "on stepping one morning into the Parliament House to find in the dignified capacity and exhibiting all the dignified bearing of a judge, the very gentleman with whom he had just spent a night of debauch and parted from only one hour before, when both were excessively intoxicated."

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/scotland_street_tunnel/

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/scotland_street_tunnel/index2.shtml