 In 1830 however, Matthew Arnot Stewart, the last direct representative of the family, sold the estate to David Provan, a surgeon.Provan had been the personal surgeon to the rulers of Travancore in southern India and had retired from the Honourable East India Company at the age of 49, marrying in 1830 Emma Reid, the 18 year old daughter of a Glasgow book dealer.In 1851 his son David (b.1834 d.1903) inherited and remodelled the property with much of the old house surviving 'within' the new building.