 Another person of interest in the history of Masongill is Dr. Bryan Charles Waller (1853–1932).Waller was Squire of Masongill from 1877 and, from 1879, he was a lecturer in Pathology at the University of Edinburgh, having already attained his MD there.During his time in Edinburgh he took lodgings with the Doyle family and quickly became a dominant factor in their lives.