Heriot, George

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Dates 1603-1624
Location London; Surrey
Vocation Goldsmith
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage Alison Primrose
Issue
Place of birth Source J.H. McCulloch, The Scot in England (London, 1935), 38-40

Goldsmith to Queen Anne (1597) and jeweller to James VI (1601). Followed the king to London (1603) and established himself as a goldsmith there. On good terms with James, and his house thus became a rendezvous point for Scots arriving in London to petition the king. Known as the 'Jingling Geordie' (a pub on Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh is named after him).