On the 23rd of December 1729 The Hon. Alexander Elphinstone who was leading a life of idleness and pleasure in Leith while his brother was in exile met a lieutenant Swift of Lord Cadogan’s regiment (which later became the Kings own) at the house of a Mr Watson in Leith. (more…)
In the year 1724 the Honourable Alexander Elphinstone who was the elder brother of Lord Balmerino (who had been executed on Tower Hill for taking part in “45” rebellion) played on Leith Links what prints of the time said “was a solemn match at Golf” with a another famous person Captain John Porteous who was later hanged during the Porteous Riots from a dyers pole by the Edinburgh mob. The wager at the time was twenty guineas. (more…)
The first rules of golf in the world formulated not at St Andrews but on the Links of Leith. Not only this but the first Golf House in the World was on the site of what is now Queen Margaret University College in Duke St (the old Leith Academy building). Furthermore it was from Leith that St Andrews got the Rules of Golf. So in fact the true home of golf is not St Andrews but Leith! (more…)
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