Most of the area comprises tenement housing built for the artisan class in the second half of the 19th century on mainly nursery ground feued on the eastern side by Baron Norton's Estate, (formerly belonging to the Logans of Restalrig) and on the western side by George Heriot's Trust and several other landowners.
His father, Reuben Mendick, was a medical doctor and dux of George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He attended George Heriot's School, where his father was a teacher, and spent a year at Edinburgh University before leaving to start training as an accountant.
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He was educated at the independent George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, and the University of Glasgow, where he received an MA in Politics and Economics in 1972 and was president of the union.