Gilbert Laing Meason
 Gilbert Laing Meason (3 July 1769 – 14 August 1832) a Scottish gentleman best remembered as the originator of the term landscape architecture.Laing Meason lived on an estate called Lindertis in Forfar and was a friend of Sir Walter Scott. He was interested in art history and in 1828 published a book called On The Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy (London 1828).