title: Polton
text: # Polton
  
  Polton is a village located in Lasswade parish, Midlothian, Scotland, anciently a superiority of the Ramsay family, cadets of Dalhousie. In 1618 David Ramsay of Polton was in possession. (See: Analecta Scotica, Edinburgh, 1834).
  
  ## Notable residents
  
  * Thomas de Quincey the English writer, lived here in the latter part of his life, until his death in 1859.
  * Charles Thomas Clough an eminent geologist, lived at St Ann's Mount, Polton with his family
  