Origins
Manderston was anciently an estate of the powerful Home family, and their tower house appears on General Roy's map of 1750. Alexander Hume, of Manderston, de jure 5th Earl of Dunbar (b. 1651, d. 4 Jan. 1720 Aurich, Germany) seems to be the last member of this family who owned the estate (G.E.C., Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and The United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant., Vol. III (D to F), London 1890). To him 14 Oct. 1689, King William III. confirmed the Earldom of Dunbar exemplifying the previous confirmation thereof by Charles II. It was owned for a short while by the Swinton Family who now reside at Kimmerghame House, including the actress Tilda Swinton. The present house incorporates the earlier Georgian mansion built c1790 for Dalhousie Watherston (1752–1803).
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