Inveresk Lodge Garden

The lodge lies about 10 km south-east of Edinburgh, and for over a century was one of the homes of the Wedderburn family.

James Wedderburn travelled to Jamaica in 1747, and purchased land and slaves, becoming wealthy in the sugar trade.

[1] Wedderburn returned to Scotland in 1773; he married Isabella Blackburn in 1774 and bought Inveresk Lodge, where he lived in comfort until his death in 1807.

[4] James Wedderburn's other son Andrew Colville, born at Inveresk in 1779, became the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada.

In 1958, Mrs Helen Brunton left the house and gardens to the National Trust for Scotland.