Lord Cockburn was a founder of guidelines for conservation and he recognised that much of the antiquated property in the city needed to be cared for. Lord Cockburn died in 1854, leaving a legacy of writing including Memorials of his Time and Circuit Journeys. In 1849 Lord Cockburn wrote the passionate Letter to the Lord Provost on the Best Ways of Spoiling the Beauty of Edinburgh in which he wrote; It is not our lectures, nor our law, nor our intellectual reputation, that give us our particular fame. It is our curious, and matchless position, our strange irregularity of surface, its picturesque results, our internal features and scenery, our distant prospects, our varies and ever-beautiful neighbourhood, and the endless aspects of the city, as looked down upon from adjoining heights, or as it presents itself to the plains below. Extinguish these, and the rest would leave it a very inferior place. Very respectable, but not what is was.
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