Architecture Notes

Event ID 723875

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Lyon's Close is shown on Edgar 1742 and was also known as Stalker's Close before 1756; but the derivations of both names are abscure. In 1581, at the King's request, his master cook John Lyoun was admitted burgess and gild brother; and in 1695 a mariner, Patrick Lyon, was likewise admitted, this having been made one of the conditions of a gift of five thousand pounds to Heriot's Hospital by Robert Sandilands. (from Stuart Harris, "Place Names of Edinburgh", 1996, page 412)