Stevenson, a mansion in Haddington parish, Haddingtonshire, near the right bank of the Tyne, 2 ½ miles ENE of Haddington town. John Sinclair, an Edinburgh merchant, who purchased the barony of Stevenson, was created a baronet in 1636; and his eighth descendant, Sir Robert Charles Sinclair, ninth Bart. (b. 1820; suc. 1863), holds 473 acres in Haddingtonshire and 18, 874 in Caithness, valued at £1042 and £5285 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 33, 1863. See Murkle.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)