Notable People
Born in Dalkeith: the American Architecht Robert Smith (1722), the politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742), the artist John Kay (1742), Robert Aitken who published the first Bible in North America, David Mushet, who pioneered iron production, photographer Robert Macpherson (1814), and the mathematical physicist Peter Guthrie Tait (1831). Sir John Anderson (later 1st Viscount Waverley), Home Secretary (1939–1940), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1943–1945) was born in Eskbank in 1882. During the election campaign of 1880 (the "Midlothian campaign") that resulted in the defeat of Disraeli's government, William Ewart Gladstone delivered a famous speech in Dalkeith.
Recent notable people from Dalkeith include former Marillion lead singer Fish (born Derek Dick) and Manchester United footballer Darren Fletcher.
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