The Edwardian Country House

'Omne Bonum Superne’ (All Good Comes From Above) reads the inscription over the gate at Manderston, a neo-Classical country house set amidst fifty-six acres of formal gardens and parkland just over the border in the Scottish lowlands. The house was rebuilt on his return from the Boer War by Sir James Miller, a career soldier, who had inherited the estate from his father Sir William Miller, a Liberal MP who had made his money in the Baltic from hemp and herring. Miller commissioned the architect John Kinross to refurbish and extend his home in a manner appropriate to a member of the Edwardian nouveaux riches, one who had married the sister of Lord Curzon.