Bankton House

Bankton House is a late 17^th century house arranged south of Prestonpans in East Lothian, Scotland. The house is situated between the A1 street and the East Coast Main Line railroad at network reference NT394736. Alexander Seton, first Viscount of Kingston, composing as right on time as 1687, relates that his granddad, Robert, first Earl of Winton, gave the terrains of "Hollistobe, vulgo Olivestob" to Alexander's uncle, Sir Thomas Seton, the lord's fourth son. The first Earl of Winton passed on in 1603, and along these lines the Setons more likely than not possessed Olivestob before 1603.

Sir John Hamilton, a relative of the Hamiltons of Boreland, purchased Olivestob from Sir John Seton in 1624 and, on his passing, went out to his child William. In 1674, Captain Thomas Hamilton, more youthful sibling of William, purchased the domains. Soon thereafter Thomas wedded Grizell Hamilton of Westport. Grizell's granddad possessed the adjacent home at Preston and was the sibling of Thomas Hamilton, first Earl of Haddington. Commander Hamilton was already in administration in Sweden however on his arrival to Edinburgh as a dealer was elevated to Colonel in the Edinburgh Regiment. Colonel Hamilton's child James examined law at Leiden in Holland and was conceded as a promoter in 1708. He was later selected Sheriff of Haddington by Queen Anne, a position he held until 1715.