Parliament in 2007, the proposal was rejected in 2009 by transport planners due to anticipated cost. Notable people Helen Duncan (1897–1956), the last woman to be imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, lived in Craigmillar. The former Craigmillar Primary School building houses a mural by the painter John Maxwell, who was trained by Fernand Léger and was a fellow student of Marc Chagall in Paris. There is a fine example of 20th century stained glass by Sadie Maclellan in Robin Chapel, in the Thistle Foundation, a housing complex for disabled people in the centre of Craigmillar. Local mother Helen Crummy was instrumental in the founding of the Craigmillar Festival Society in 1962. The noted Conservative politician, Sir Ian Gilmour, was given a life peerage by John Major in 1992, becoming Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, of Craigmillar in the District of the City of Edinburgh, of which his family were, for several hundred years, the feudal superiors. References External links Craigmillar community site Craigmillar Partnership CraigmillarOnline Robin Chapel Areas of Edinburgh Housing estates in Edinburgh Hill figures in Scotland Geoglyphs