George Haliburton (Lord Provost)

He was born at Muirhouse (or Muirhouselaw) north of Edinburgh in 1685, the son of Patrick Haliburton and Jane Erskine of Shielfield.^[1]

He was elected Dean of Guild in 1739 and Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1740 and was succeeded by John Coutts in 1742.^[2]

He died on 3 September 1742 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.^[3]

After his death two of his shops at the foot of West Bow on the Grassmarket passed to John Hamilton, cordiner (shoemaker).^[4]

He was married to Elizabeth Rutherford, widow of his cousin, Thomas Rutherford. They had three daughters:.^[5]

• Helen
• Janet, married James Nicolson, minister of Banchory in 1741
• Davidona married William Dallas in 1756 and was mother to Lt General Thomas Dallas

A second marriage bore him two sons, John and David, the latter of whom inherited Muirhouselaw.