Talk:Lacy Ryan

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Lacy Ryan also laid the foundation stone of the Canongate Concert Hall in Edinburgh on 3 August 1747. (See The Caledonian Mercury 4 August 1747) The was built on land belonging to the engraver, Richard Cooper senior (1696-1764) and he leased the building to the Edinburgh Company of Comedians for a period of 25 years. This was the first permanent theatre in Scotland. The building still stands today, in Old Playhouse Close (on the left as you enter the Close with three large windows wired over) but in 1927 it was incorporated into the back of the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge No. 2, built in 1737.

See articles by Joe Rock: ‘The ‘A’ Marked Porcelain: Further Evidence for the Scottish Option’, in the Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle Vol. 17 Pt. 1, 1999, pp. 69-78. ‘An Important Scottish Anatomical Publication Rediscovered’, in The Book Collector Vol. 49, No. 1, 2000, pp. 27-60. 'Cooper and the Countess: Richard Cooper, senior, and the beginnings of rococo taste in Scotland: documents from the Traquair archives' in Scottish Archives Vol. 8, 2002, pp. 71-81.