1873 The Kidstons
George Jardine Kidston (1835-1909) had made money as Chairman of the Clyde Shipping Company, the oldest steamship company in the world, which ran tugs on the Clyde and coasters out of Glasgow. After renting the house for 25 years, he bought it in 1897 and engaged the architect John James Burnet to restyle it.

Lilian Kidston, one of George's six daughters (he also had three sons) married Richard Blackiston-Houston, an Irish banker, and was able to buy out her siblings' shares in the estate, and so keep it together to hand down in the family.

Marion Blackiston-Houston, their daughter was married in 1929 to the soldier Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan, who in 1952 was discovered to be the MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap - the Chief of Clann an Mhaoil. Their son George Gordon MacMillan married in 1961. Their eldest son, Arthur, became Chief Executive of the Clyde Shipping Company in 1995 and now owns the house.

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