Jun 292026
Priestfield Road, Edinburgh EH16 5UT
This mansion on the edge of Holyrood Park was a place where Edinburgh’s Enlightenment elite convened, Benjamin Franklin among them. Sir Alexander Dick, owner of Prestonfield, was a physician, seven times President of the Royal College of Physicians, and a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He welcomed the leading thinkers of his age to his home.
Franklin visited Prestonfield during his Edinburgh stays and the house, now a hotel, today honors that connection with a Benjamin Franklin Suite, named after the Founding Father who slept within its walls.