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Houstoun House, a mansion in Uphall parish, Linlithgowslhire, 1 mile NW of Uphall station on the Bathgate section of the North British railway, and 5 furlongs WSW of Uphall village. An old Scottish mansion house, of considerable height, with crowstepped gables, and with well laid-out grounds, it was founded in the latter half of the 16th century by Sir John Shairp, Knight, an eminent lawyer and Queen Mary's advocate. Among his descendants have been Norman Shairp (1779-1864), Major H. E. I. C. S.; his eldest son, Thomas (b. 1814), who holds 567 acres in the shire, valued at £840 per annum; and his younger son, John Campbell, LL.D. (b. 1819), principal of St Salvator's College, St Andrews.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857. See John Small's Castles and Mansions of the Lothians (Edinb. 1883).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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