David Hume bronze plaque

This bronze commemorative plaque records: Riddell's Close and Court in this close lived David Hume before settling in James's Court. In Court beyond Baillie Macmorran banqueted in his house James VI, his queen and Danish nobles

David Hume was a prominent philosopher, historian, and economist whose empiricist philosophy and skeptical epistemology influenced Enlightenment thinking. He is remembered for his contributions to Western philosophy and his influential works such as "A Treatise of Human Nature" and "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding."