Alexander Laing was a Scottish architect who was mainly involved in house and castle design.
Overview
Alexander Laing (13 June 1752 – 10 September 1823) was a Scottish architect who was mainly involved in house and castle design.
Life
He appears to be the son of Thomas Laing (d.1774), a knife- and tool-maker who lived near the Theatre on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
Laing trained as a stonemason, and (as was typical in that age) was also styled "architect", and was based in Edinburgh; He is first listed in Williamson's Edinburgh Directory of 1774 as a "Mason" living at Theatre Row (on the south side of the Royal Mile near the now Museum of Childhood).
Laing married three times: first to Charlotte Polson in 1772, then to Margaret Turnbull in 1786, and finally to Beatrix Currie in 1789.
