Greyfriars Kirkyard is the

graveyard A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in

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. It is located at the southern edge of the

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, adjacent to George Heriot's School. Burials have been taking place since the late 16th century, and a number of notable Edinburgh residents are interred at Greyfriars. The Kirkyard is operated by the City of Edinburgh Council in liaison with a charitable trust, which is linked to but separate from the church. The Kirkyard and its monuments are protected as a category A

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History

Greyfriars takes its name from the

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on the site (the friars of which wear grey habits), which was dissolved in 1560. The churchyard was founded in August 1562 after royal sanctions were granted to replace the churchyard at

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in Edinburgh. The latter burial ground was not used after around 1600. Greyfriars kirkyard 1848

The Kirkyard was involved in the history of the

Covenanter Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs. It originated in disputes with James VI and his son C ...

s. The Covenanting movement began with the signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirk on 28 February 1638. Following the defeat of the militant Covenanters at Bothwell Brig in 1679, some 1200 Covenanters were imprisoned in a field to the south of the churchyard. When, in the 18th century, part of this field was amalgamated into the churchyard as vaulted tombs, the area became known as the "Covenanters' Prison". During the early days of photography in the 1840s the kirkyard was used by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson as a setting for several portraits and tableaux such as ''The Artist and The Gravedigger''.

Covenanters

The National Covenant was signed in the graveyard (as it was a place of free legal public assembly) in 1638. Whilst some depictions of the event show them leaning on table stones, these stones did not exist at that time and the signing was done during the period of the ban on central gravestones. Following the

Battle of Bothwell Bridge The Battle of Bothwell Bridge, or Bothwell Brig' took place on 22 June 1679. It was fought between government troops and militant Presbyterian Covenanters, and signalled the end of their brief rebellion. The battle took place at the bridge ove ...

(22 June 1679), some 1200 prisoners were brought to Edinburgh. There being too numerous for containment in the prison or castle, a makeshift "prison" was formed in a field south of Greyfriars Kirkyard, to hold around 400 not containable elsewhere. This area was conveniently enclosed on two sides by the Flodden Wall and on a third side (the west) by the high enclosing wall of George Heriot's School. The fourth side faced the churchyard and was separated by an easily patrolled and guarded picket fence. The name Covenanters Prison stuck. The bulk of the area was built on by the city Bedlam (around 1690). A remaining strip of land, sandwiched between the Bedlam and George Heriot's School, was used for additional burial ground from around 1700. The style at the time was to build in enclosed vaults, and this is the dominant form in this section. As the vaults did not exist at the time of the area's prison use, despite their potential to be used as prison cells, this was never the case. The area was open to public view until around 1990, but was thereafter locked by

the City of Edinburgh Council The City of Edinburgh Council (Scottish Gaelic: ''Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann'') is the local government authority covering the City of Edinburgh council area. Almost half of the council area is the built-up area of Edinburgh, capital of Sco ...

to stem persistent vandalism and use by drug users. The area is accessible during the day by special arrangement with the guides at Greyfriard Kirk during their opening hours and at night by going on a City of the Dead Tour where the Black Mausoleum can be visited.

Greyfriars Bobby

The graveyard is associated with Greyfriars Bobby, the loyal dog who guarded his master's grave. Bobby's headstone at the entrance to the Kirkyard, erected by the Dog Aid Society in 1981, marks his reputed burial place, however, as there are no parts of the kirkyard that is not consecrated it is also believed he was buried under a tree outside the gates to the right of the current main entrance. The dog's statue is opposite the graveyard's gate, at the junction of

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and Candlemaker Row. The grave of a Pentland Hills Shepherd, "Auld Jock" (John Gray), where the dog famously slept for 14 years, lies on the eastern path, some 30m north of the entrance. The stone is modern, the grave originally being unmarked.

Monuments

Enclosed burial lairs are found mainly on the south edge of the graveyard and in the "Covenanters' Prison". These either have solid stone walls or iron railings and were created as a deterrent to grave robbing, which had become a problem in the eighteenth century. Greyfriars also has two low ironwork cages called mortsafes. These were leased and protected bodies for long enough to deter the attention of the early nineteenth-century resurrection men who supplied Edinburgh Medical College with corpses for dissection. The kirkyard displays some of Scotland's finest mural monuments from the early 17th century, rich in symbolism of both mortality and immortality, such as the Death Head, Angel of the Resurrection, and the King of Terrors. These are mostly found along the east and west walls of the old burial yard to the north of the kirkyard. Notable monuments include the Martyr's Monument, which commemorates executed Covenanters. The Italianate monument to Sir George Mackenzie was designed by the architect James Smith, and modelled on the Tempietto di San Pietro, designed by Donato Bramante. Duncan Ban MacIntyre's memorial was renovated in 2005, at a cost of about £3,000, raised by a fundraising campaign for over a year. The monument of John Byres of Coates, 1629, was one of the last works of the royal master mason William Wallace.

Bloody MacKenzie's Tomb

In 2003, the distinctive domed tomb of Sir George MacKenzie was entered by two teenage boys, aged 17 and 15, via a ventilation slot in the rear (now sealed). They reached the lower vault (containing the coffins), broke the coffins open and stole a skull. Police arrived as they were playing football with the skull on the grass. The pair narrowly escaped imprisonment on the little-used but still extant charge of violating sepulchres.

Notable burials

(note-''CP'' denotes graves within the sealed south-west section known as the Covenanters Prison) *

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(1689–1748), with his son John Adam (architect) (1721–1792) * William Adam of Blair Adam (1751–1839), judge * Alexander Adie

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(1775–1859), optical instrument maker * David Aikinhead (1566–1637), twice

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, 1620–22 and 1625–30 * William Annand (1633–1681), minister and Dean of St Giles Cathedral * Robert Baird of Saughtonhall (1630–1697), Cashier of the Scottish Carolina Company * John Bayne of Pitcairlie (1620–1681), Writer to the Signet * Leslie Balfour-Melville (1854–1937), golfer * John Beugo (1759–1841), engraver * Joseph Black (1728–1799), physician (''CP'') * Rev

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(1718–1800) * Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741–1787) * Robert Blair, Lord Avontoun (1741–1811), judge (''CP'') * Very Rev Andrew Brown (1763–1834), minister and historian of

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(died 1582), historian and reformer * James Buchanan of Drumpellier (1726–1786), twice

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after whom Buchanan Street is named * James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714–1799), judge (''CP'' – unmarked) * Sir John Byres of Coates (Coittes) (1569–1629) * Robert Cadell (1788–1849), publisher *

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(1629–1685), nobleman * General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell (1763–1837) * Very Rev Dr John Campbell (1758–1828), Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1818 * Sir Hugh Campbell of Cesnock, covenanter and MP for Ayrshire (1615–1688) * Aglionby Ross Carson

(1780–1850), rector of the High School 1820–1845, author * William Carstares (1649–1715), churchman and statesman * Colonel Francis Charteris (1675–1732), notorious rake and member of the

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* Robert Chieslie (c. 1650 – c. 1705),

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who lost a fortune in the Darien scheme and died in Darien House (the asylum). * Prof Alexander Christison

(1753–1820) * William Colvill (d. 1675), principal of

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, location unknown * William Coulter,

(1808–1810) * Bishop William Cowper (1568–1619) * James Craig (1739–1795), architect and designer of Edinburgh's New Town *

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(1745–1815), bookseller and

of Edinburgh * Andrew Crosbie (1736–1785), lawyer and founding Fellow of the

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(unmarked) * Sir Hugh Cunningham of Bonnington (1643–1710),

1702–04 (CP) * John Dalrymple (1734–1779), Lord Provost 1770 and 1777 (CP) * Prof Andrew Dalzell,

Professor of Greek at the

(1742–1806) * Charles Kemp Davidson, Lord Davidson (1929–2009), Senator of the College of Justice * Forrest Dewar (1748–1817), surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1786/88 * Alexander Donaldson (1727–1794), bookseller and publisher * Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet (1727–1789) *

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(c. 1516–1581), Regent of Scotland * Adam Drummond of Binend (1679–1758), Professor of Anatomy at the

* Adam Drummond (1713–1786) * Very Rev John Drysdale

DD (1718–1788), twice Moderator of the Church of Scotland in both 1773 and 1784, son-in-law to William Adam and buried in the Adam mausoleum * Prof George Dunbar (classical scholar) (1777–1851) * William Dunlop (ecclesiastical historian) (1692–1720) * John Erskine (theologian) (1721–1803) * Mary Erskine (1629–1708), founder of

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(''CP'') * Sir David Falconer (1640–1685), judge * Sir James Falconer of Phesdo (1648–1706), judge and Senator of the College of Justice * Sir Adam Ferguson (1770–1854), soldier son of Adam Ferguson (''CP'') * James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour (1700–1777) * Admiral John Macpherson Ferguson (1784–1855), younger son of Adam Ferguson (''CP'') * John MacMorran (1553–1595), Burgh official shot by schoolchildren. * Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden (1685–1747), politician and judge * Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet of Monymusk and Pitsligo

(1739–1806) and his son Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet (1773–1828), banker * Sir James Forrest, 1st Baronet (1780–1860),

1837–43 * Alexander Forrester (1611–1686) * Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone (1721–1793), judge (unmarked grave) * William Ged (1699–1749), inventor of stereotyping (unmarked grave) * Walter Geikie (1795–1837), artist * Arthur Giles (1834–1921), Princes Street bookseller and printer * Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies (1760–1842), judge (''CP'') * Dr John Gordon (1786–1818), anatomist and anti-phrenologist * Lewis Duncan Brodie Gordon (1815–1876), civil engineer * Very Rev Prof John Gowdie (1682–1762), Moderator in 1733, Principal of

* Admiral Alexander Graeme (1741–1818), naval officer * James Gillespie Graham (1777–1855), architect (''CP'') * Lord Patrick Grant (1691–1754), judge (''CP'') * John Gray (died 1858), owner of Greyfriars Bobby * John Hall of Dunglass (1650–1695), Lord Provost and his great grandson Sir James Hall (1761–1832) geologist * Robert Hamilton (advocate)

(1763–1831), friend of

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* Matthew Hardie (1755–1826), violin maker nicknamed the 'Scottish Stradivari' * Franz Hedrich (1823–1895), German poet * Alexander Henderson (died 1646), churchman and statesman * Thomas Henderson

(1798–1844), unmarked within the grave of his father-in-law Alexander Adie * George Heriot (1540–1610), goldsmith, father to George Heriot * Rev Prof John Hill

(1747–1805), classicist * Vice Admiral Sir George Home (1740–1803) * Sir James Home (1790–1836) * Vice Admiral Sir John Home of Blackadder (died 1803) * John Hope (botanist) (1725–1786), his physician son, Thomas Charles Hope (1766–1844), his grandson, John Hope (lawyer) (1807–1893), and five other members of his family * Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet (1573–1646) * William Howison (1798–1850), engraver * Alexander Gibson Hunter of Blackness (1771–1812), book collector and publisher in partnership with Archibald Constable *

James Hutton James Hutton (; 3 June Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, Agricultural science, agriculturalist, chemist, chemical manufacturer, Natural history, naturalist and physician. Often referred to a ...

(1726–1797), geologist (''CP'') * Sir David Innes (died 1866) * Gilbert Innes of Stow (died 1832) *

George Jamesone George Jamesone (or Jameson) (c. 1587 – 1644) was a Scottish painter who is regarded as Scotland's first eminent portrait-painter. Early years He was born in Aberdeen, where his father, Andrew Jamesone, was a stonemason. His mother was Marj ...

(1587–1644), Scotland's foremost 17th century portrait artist *

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(1742–1826) * Alexander Kemp

(1822–1854), chemist * Robert Kerr (1759–1813), scientific author * Rev James Kirkton (1628–1699) in the Trotter vault * James L'Amy of Dunkenny

(1772–1854), advocate and phrenologist * John Law (c. 1632–1712), minister and prisoner on the Bass Rock * Sir John Leach (1760–1834), judge, buried in the Adam mausoleum * John Learmonth of Dean (1789–1858),

1831–33 (''CP'') and his ancestor James Learmonth, Lord Balcomie * William Little (1525–1601), twice

1586 and 1591 * Sir George Lockhart (1630–1689), murder victim buried in Mackenzie's tomb * Thomas McCrie (1772–1835), historian, and his son Thomas M'Crie the Younger (1797–1875) * Alexander MacDuff of Bonhard

(1816–1866) * William McGonagall (1825–1902), poet * Duncan Ban MacIntyre (1724–1812), Gaelic poet *

Colin MacLaurin Colin Maclaurin (; ; February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. He is also known for being a child prodigy and holding the record for being the youngest professor. ...

(1698–1746), mathematician, and his son John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (1734–1796) * Hugh Mackail, martyr (1640?–1666), minister hanged at the market-cross after being tortured with the

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* Sir George Mackenzie (1636–1691), Lord Advocate * Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831), writer and author of '' The Man of Feeling'', father of Joshua Henry Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (1774–1851) * Sir James McLurg of Vogrie (1629–1717), Dean of Guild, philanthropist, major investor in the Darien scheme (''CP'') * John Manderston,

(1819–21) * Sir John Medina (1659–1710), prominent artist (the "sunken" vault on the east side) * Alexander Miller (died 1616), tailor to James VI * Patrick Miller of Dalswinton (1731–1815), steamship inventor * Alexander Moncrieff (1613–1688), prominent 17C minister, grandfather of Alexander Moncrieff * Mary Arbuthnot Moir (1804–1900), friend of

Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European literature, European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'' (18 ...

* Robert Scott Moncrieff (1793–1869), advocate and amateur artist, father of Colin Scott-Moncrieff (''CP'') * Dr. Alexander Monro (1697–1767), father of

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(1733–1817), famed anatomists * Alexander Monteith (surgeon) (1660–1713), surgeon and apothecary * Sir Harry Munro, 7th Baronet (1720–1781), military leader during the Rebellion of 1745 * Sir Archibald Muir, twice

1691–92 and 1696–98 * Prof Alexander Murray (1775–1813) * James Murray of Deuchar (1571–1649), wealthy merchant * John Mylne (1611–1667), mason and architect * Sir William Newbigging

(1772–1852), physician *

Alexander Nisbet Alexander Nisbet (bapt. 23 March 1657; died 7 Dec. 1725) was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian. He is remembered for his works on heraldry, which are considered to be some of the most complete and authoritative produced in the UK. Life Nisb ...

(1657–1725), antiquarian and author of ''A System of Heraldry'' (grave location unclear) * John Nisbet (1627–1685), Covenanter, hanged at the Grassmarket *

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(1561–1628), judge * John Paton,

and army captain, executed in 1684 * Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713), physician * Captain John Porteous (c. 1695–1736), soldier and lynching victim, after whom the

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are named * Gilbert Primrose (1535–1616), surgeon * James Rae (surgeon) (1716–1791) * Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), poet * Archibald Riddell (minister), prisoner on the Bass Rock and covenanting minister at New Jersey and Edinburgh * General Henry James Riddell (died 1861), commander in chief of the Scottish army * Thomas Riddell, possible inspiration for J. K. Rowling's fictional character who cannot be named * William Ritchie (1781–1832), founder and editor of

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* William Robertson D.D. (1721–1793), historian and his son Lt Col David Robertson MacDonald * William Robertson (antiquary)

(1740–1803) *

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FRS (1848–1894) (memorial only) *

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(1751–1815), botanist * Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), classical scholar and grammarian * Gilbert Rule (1629 (approx) – 1701), minister and the Principal of

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from 1690 to 1701 * Sir William Scott of Thirlestane (1670–1725), landowner and poet (''CP'') * Sir Robert Sibbald (1641–1722), physician and botanist * Henry Siddons (1774–1815), failed actor, son of

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, husband of Harriet Siddons * Sir James Skene (died 1633), President of the College of Justice * John Skene, Lord Curriehill (died 1617) * William Smellie (encyclopedist) (1740–1795) creator of the

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* Sir James Spittal (1769–1842),

1833 until 1837 and his son Dr Robert Spittal * Sir James Stewart (Lord Advocate) (1635–1713), location of grave unknown * Rev Dr. Matthew Stewart (mathematician) (1717–1785), father of Dugald Stewart (unmarked grave) * James Stirling (1692–1770), mathematician * Sir James Stirling, 1st Baronet (1739–1805), three times

and Sir Gilbert Stirling, baronet * Rev James Struthers (1770–1807), famous orator * James Stuart of Binend (1716–1777), twice

, father of Charles Stuart of Dunearn (1745–1826) * Prof John Thomson FRS

(1765–1846), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh * Archibald Tod (d. 1656), twice

1646–48 and 1651–54 * Robert Traill (1603–1678), minister of the parish * The Trotter family of Mortonhall * William Trotter of Ballindean (1772–1833), famous furniture maker and also Lord Provost 1825 to 1827 * William Tytler (1711–1792), father of Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747–1813), grandson of Patrick Fraser Tytler (1789–1849) (''CP'') * Barbara and Mary Walker of Coates, rich spinsters who paid for St Marys Episcopal Cathedral in the west of the city * William Wallace (1768–1843), mathematician * George Watson (1654–1723), accountant and founder of George Watson's College *

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(died 1722), printer and publisher. Founder of the Edinburgh Gazette and Edinburgh Courant. * John Watson W.S. (died 1762), founder of John Watson's Institution, now the Gallery of Modern Art * John Wilson of Kilmaurs, executed 22 December 1666 for his part in the Pentland Rising *

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(1798–1871), architect * Robert Whytt (1714–1766), physician and president of the

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(''CP'') * Very Rev William Wishart (1660–1729), father of William Wishart (secundus) (CP) * William Wright (1735–1819), botanist

Gallery

File:Notable burials at Greyfriars.JPG, Notable burials File:Greyfriars Kirkyard, north-east corner.jpg, Section of the east wall File:Greyfriars Kirkyard, east wall.jpg, Monuments on the east wall File:George Buchanan Memorial, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.JPG, George Buchanan Memorial File:Tomb of John Bayne of Pitcarlie, Greyfriars Kirkyard Edinburgh.jpg, Tomb of John Bayne of Pitcairlie (17th c.) File:Tomb of the laird of Ravilstoun, detail.jpg, Detail on the tomb of George Foulis, laird of Ravilstoun (d. 1633) and his wife, Jane Bannatyne File:Greyfriars grotesques.JPG, Detail on the John Mylne Monument (17th c.) File:Mackenzie mausoleum.JPG, Mausoleum of Sir George Mackenzie, by James Smith File:Memento mori, Greyfriars Kirk - geograph.org.uk - 1302429.jpg, Tombstone of James Borthwick, surgeon, who died in 1676 File:Recumbent figure, Greyfriars Kirkyard.JPG, Recumbent figure on the tomb of William and Clement Little, 1683 File:George-watson-graveyard.jpg, Gravestones in the north-west of the kirkyard, including a marker for the burial site of George Watson

References

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