Elizabeth Dundas

Elizabeth Dundas (1650 – 25 May 1731), Lady Stair, was a Scottish noblewoman and owner of Lady Stair’s House in the Lawnmarket, in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Early life Elizabeth was born in 1650, the daughter of Sir John Dundas of Newliston and his wife Agnes Gray. She was the granddaughter of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum, and his wife Egidia or Geida Smith. She had one brother, John Dundas, who was born in 1639. Marriage and later life In 1655 Elizabeth inherited the bankrupt estates of her father.