James Tod of Deanston

James Tod of Deanston and Hope Park WS FRSE (c.1795–1858) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer, antiquary and landowner.

He was born around 1795 the eldest son of James Tod of Hope Park, on the south-east side of the Meadows, Edinburgh.

[5] By 1855 he was living in a huge Georgian townhouse at 55 Great King Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town.

[7] His photograph (an early calotype of 1844 by Hill & Adamson) is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

[9] Her brother Robert Mercer married Elizabeth Scott-Moncrieff (1802-1871), daughter of Very Rev Henry Moncrieff of Tullibole Castle near Fossoway.