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The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the
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, west of
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city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on its west by the Dean Gallery. A 20th-century extension lies detached from the main cemetery to the north of Ravelston Terrace. The main cemetery is accessible through the main gate on its east side, through a "grace and favour" access door from the grounds of Dean Gallery and from Ravelston Terrace. The modern extension is only accessible at the junction of Dean Path and Queensferry Road.


The cemetery

Dean Cemetery, originally known as Edinburgh Western Cemetery, was laid out by David Cousin (an Edinburgh architect who also laid out
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) in 1846 and was a fashionable burial ground for mainly the middle and upper-classes. The many monuments bear witness to Scottish achievement in peace and war, at home and abroad and are a rich source of Edinburgh and Victorian history. As the cemetery plots were quickly bought up the cemetery was extended on its north side in 1871. A second set of entrance gates were built on Dean Path, matching the original entrance. Although this section was originally only accessed through this gate the extension was quickly linked to the original section by creating gaps in the mutual wall where no graves existed. The separated section north of Ravelston Terrace (previously Edgehill Nursery) was purchased in 1877 in anticipation of a sales rate matching that of the original cemetery, but this was not to be, and the area only began to be used in 1909 (excepting John Ritchie Findlay (1898) alone for a decade). This section is relatively plain and generally unremarkable, but does include a line of Scottish judges against the north wall, perhaps trying to echo the "Lord's Row" against the west wall of the original cemetery. Whilst numerically greater in its number of lords it is far less eye-catching. The entire cemetery is privately owned by the Dean Cemetery Trust Limited, making it one of the few cemeteries still run as it was intended to be run. The resultant layout, with its mature designed landscape, can be seen as an excellent example of a cemetery actually being visible in the form it was conceived to be seen. The southern access from Belford Road is now blocked and the entrance road here is now grassed and used for the interment of ashes. The cemetery contains sculpture by Sir John Steell, William Brodie, John Hutchison,
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, Pilkington Jackson, Amelia Robertson Hill, William Birnie Rhind, John Rhind, John Stevenson Rhind, William Grant Stevenson, Henry Snell Gamley, Charles McBride, George Frampton, Walter Hubert Paton and Stewart McGlashan.


Dean House

The cemetery stands on the site of Dean House (built 1614), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616
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. The Nisbets of Dean held the office of Hereditary Poulterer to the King. The famous herald,
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, of Nisbet House, near Duns, Scottish Borders,
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, is said to have written his ''Systems of Heraldry'' in Dean House. The estate house was demolished in 1845, and sculptured stones from it are incorporated into the south retaining wall supporting at the south side of the cemetery. This lower, hidden section also contains graves. John Swinton, Lord Swinton died in the house in 1799. Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes was born in Dean House in 1804.


Notable interments


Original cemetery

"N" denotes location in the first northern extension. "LR" denotes location in the Lords Row. * The 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924) * Lord Adam (1824–1914), Senator of the College of Justice (N) * Sir James Ormiston Affleck
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(1796–1875), church historian * John Aitken (1793–1833), Scottish journalist and editor (LR) * Robert Alexander RSA (1840–1923), artist * Sir Archibald Alison (d. 1867), advocate and historian, plus his son, Sir Archibald Alison (LR) * Robert Allan
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(1806–1863), mineralogist * Sir Robert George Allan
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(1879–1972), agriculturalist * Major General William Allan (1832–1918), a general in the
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* Sir William Allan RSA (1782–1850), artist * John Anderson (1833–1900), sculpted by David Watson Stevenson * Thomas Anderson FLS (1832–1870), botanist * Thomas Annandale (1838–1907), medical pioneer and surgeon (N) * Neil Arnott FRS (1788–1874), physician * Lena Ashwell, Lady Simson (1869–1957), English actress * Prof William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet * Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849–1907), poet and author * Dr John William Ballantyne
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(1861–1923), founder of the science of antenatal pathology * William Francis Beattie MC (1886–1918), sculptor * William Hamilton Beattie (1842–1898), architect (including Jenner's and the Balmoral Hotel) * Dr John Beddoe (1826–1911), ethnologist * Dr James Warburton Begbie (1826–1876), physician (N) * Archibald Bell (1776–1854), author and advocate * Dr Joseph Bell (1837–1911), lecturer at the medical school of the
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, personal surgeon of
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(RGS) * Alexander Black (1797–1858), architect * Alexander William Black MP (1859–1906) * Very Rev. James Black DD (d. 1948),
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in 1938 and Chaplain to the King * Lord Blackburn LLD (1864–1944), Senator of the College of Justice (N) * John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) * John Blackwood (1818–1879), publisher and editor of ''
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'' * Rev Dr Robert Blair (1837–1907) (N) * Thomas Bonnar (father (d. 1873) and son (d. 1896), a back-to-back monument by David Watson Stevenson), artists, decorators and designers * Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th Lord Borthwick (1813–1885) * Sir Thomas Bouch (1822–1880), railway engineer, designer of the original Tay Rail Bridge * Samuel Bough RSA, artist, (1822–1878) (monument by William Brodie, 1879) * Admiral James Paterson Bower (1806–1889) and his son Major General Hamilton St Clair Bower (1858–1940) (N) * Prof Francis Darby Boyd (1866–1922), Professor of Clinical Medicine at
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* Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997), sculptor * Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd (1818–1902),
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1877–82 (N) * Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847–1921), brain surgeon * Edwin Bramwell
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(1873–1952), brain surgeon (N) * Sir John Clerk Brodie (1811–1888), monument by John Hutchison (including his son Thomas Dawson Brodie) (LR) * William Brodie (1815–1881) * Agnes Henderson Brown (1866–1943), suffragette * Andrew Betts Brown (1841–1906), engineer and inventor, co-founder of Brown Brothers & Co (N) *
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and Jane Buchanan, philanthropists * John Young Buchanan FRS FRSE (1844–1925), oceanographer * Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), sculptor * Dr John Graham MacDonald Burt
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(1809–1868), President of the
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* Samuel Butcher (1850–1910), professor of Greek at
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, Liberal Unionist MP for Cambridge University (N) * Florence St John Cadell (1877–1966), artist (N) * Francis Cadell (artist) (1883–1937), Scottish colourist, his actress sister Jean Cadell (1884–1967) and great nephew, comedy actor Simon Cadell (1950–1996), star of '' Enemy at the Door'' and '' Hi-de-Hi!'' * Prof Francis Mitchell Caird (1853–1926), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1912–14 (N) * Edward and James Key Caird,
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* Richard Vary Campbell (1840–1901), legal author (N) * James Carswell (1832–1897), civil engineer, designer of Queen Street Station, Glasgow, and the approaches to the Forth Rail Bridge (N) * James Cassie RSA (1819–1879), artist (N) * Sir David Patrick Chalmers (1835–1899), colonial judge (N) * George Paul Chalmers (1838–1878), artist * Robert Chambers (1832–1888), publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedia * Prof John Chiene (1843–1923), surgeon * Henry Martyn Clark (1887–1916), missionary * Lord Cockburn (1779–1854) * John Campbell Colquhoun (1803–1870), writer * George Somervil Carfrae (1854–1934), civil engineer (N) * Dr John G. S. Coghill (1834–1899), physician and medical author * George Combe (1788–1858), lawyer and phrenologist * Charles Alfred Cooper
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'' newspaper * Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon and cricketer, son of Henry Cotterill * Rev George Coventry FRSE (1791–1872), (LR) * Lord Cowan (1798–1878), Senator of the College of Justice (LR) * Robert Cox WS (1810–1872), medallion head by William Brodie * Robert Cox MP (1845–1899) * Sir James Coxe (1811–1878), psychiatrist, Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland * Dr Kenneth Craik (1914–1945) * Francis Chalmers Crawford
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(1851–1908), botanist * Rev Prof Thomas Jackson Crawford
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(1812–1875), theologian and author * Robert Croall (1831–1898), coach- and post-master * Prof John Halliday Croom (1847–1923), physician * Lord Cullen (1859–1931) * Prof Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909) with his
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(1841–1903), forensic scientist and physiologist * Allen Dalzell
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* Francis Brown Douglas
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1837 to 1840 * James Dunsmure
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(1814–1886), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh * William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
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(1889–1964), psychiatrist * Dr James Duncan (1810–1866) and his son, Dr John Duncan (1839–1899) * James Faed (1821–1911), artist * Rev Valentine Faithfull (1820–1894), clergyman and cricketer * Sir James Falshaw (1810–1889),
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(1863–1934), President of both the
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and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (N) * Richard Findlay (1943–2017), broadcaster and media magnate * Rev Robert Howie Fisher DD (1861–1934), minister and author, Chaplain to the King * Lord Fleming (1877–1944), military hero and judge * James Simpson Fleming
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(1828–1899) * Prof John Fleming (1785–1857) * Prof Edward Forbes (1815–1854), naturalist * Prof James David Forbes (1809–1868), inventor of the
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* Sir Patrick Johnston Ford,
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, MP (1880–1945) * Major-General James George Roche Forlong (1824–1904), soldier and engineer * Sir John Forrest, Baronet (1817–1883), with Sir William Forrest (1823–1894) and Sir James Forrest (1853–1899) * William Hope Fowler CVO, MB, ChB, FRCSE, MRCPE, FRSE (1876–1933), x-ray pioneer, victim of his own experiments (N) * Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser (1848–1919) * Dr John Fraser
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* Lord Johnston (1844–1931), Senator of the College of Justice (N) * Sir William Campbell Johnston
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LLD (1860–1938), advocate and cricketer (N) * Artur Jurand (1914–2000), Polish born geneticist (N) * Frederick Charles Kennedy CIE (1849–1916), Director of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and involved in the
Third Anglo-Burmese War The Third Anglo-Burmese War (), also known as the Third Burma War, took place during 7–29 November 1885, with sporadic resistance continuing into 1887. It was the final of three wars fought in the 19th century between the Burmese and the Br ...
(N) * Helen Kerr LLD (1859–1940), social reformer * The Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig (1926–2015) * The 1st Baron Kinnear (1833–1917) * Charles Kinnear, architect (1830–1894) of the firm Peddie & Kinnear, creators of
Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Cockburn Street ( ) is a street in Edinburgh's Old Town, created as a serpentine link from the Royal Mile#High Street, High Street to Waverley Station in 1856. Originally named Lord Cockburn Street after the then recently deceased Scottish la ...
, etc. (N) * All four Barons Kinross, spanning almost two centuries (LR) * John Watson Laidlay
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(1808–1885), coin collector and orientalist *
William Law William Law (16869 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I of Grea ...
(1799–1878),
Lord Provost of Edinburgh The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Edinburgh is elected by and is the convener of the City of Edinburgh Council and serves not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city, ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of ...
from 1869 to 1872 * Right Hon Lord Lee
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(1830–1890), Senator of the College of Justice (N) * Rev Cameron Lees (1835–1913) * James Leslie
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(1801–1889), engineer, and his son, Alexander Leslie * John Lessels (1808–1883), City architect (N) * David Lind (1797–1856), builder of the Scott Monument * Dr William Lauder Lindsay
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FLS (1829–1880), physician and botanist * Prof Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn (1826–1914), public health promoter, forensic science pioneer, plus his son, Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862–1927), forensic scientist, Edinburgh's first Police Surgeon. * John Gordon Lorimer (1870–1916),
cenotaph A cenotaph is an empty grave, tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere or have been lost. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although t ...
* George MacRitchie Low
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, FFA (1849–1922), President of the Faculty of Actuaries (N) * Flora Macaulay (1859–1958), newspaper editor (N) * Charles McBride (1851–1903), sculptor (bronze head by Henry Snell Gamley) (N) * John MacGregor McCandlish WS
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(1821–1901), first President of the Faculty of Actuaries * Dr John McCosh (1801–1881), early photographer (cenotaph) (N) * Major-General Sir Hector MacDonald (d. 1903), "The Fighting Mac" (bronze by William Birnie Rhind) (N) * Rev Prof Patrick Campbell MacDougall (1806–1867), Professor of Moral Philosophy * John McEwan (1832–1875), part of the brewing family * Very Rev. Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851–1916) * Lord Macfadyen (1945–2008), Senator of the College of Justice * Dr John Lisle Hall MacFarlane (1851–1874), physician and Scotland rugby international (medallion by Sir John Steell) * David MacGibbon (1831–1902), architect and architectural historian, partner in
MacGibbon and Ross David MacGibbon (2 April 1831 – 20 February 1902) and Thomas Ross (10 November 1839 – 4 December 1930) were Scottish architects. Their practice, MacGibbon and Ross was established in 1872 and continued until 1914. They are best known today f ...
(N) * Archibald Donald Mackenzie (1914–1944), 'Captain Mack', officer of the Cameron Highlanders and later of the Brigata Stella Rossa, commemorated annually on
Liberation Day Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation ...
in Italy * Lord Mackenzie (1807–1869), Senator of the College of Justice * Very Rev Dugald Mackichan (1851–1932) * Andrew Douglas Maclagan
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(1817–1900), physician and toxicologist, and his son Robert Craig Maclagan * David Maclagan
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(1785–1865) military surgeon, surgeon to
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...
in Scotland * Very Rev Norman Macleod DD (1838–1911)
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in 1900 (N) * Donald Mackenzie (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie * Rev Hugh MacMillan
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(1833–1903) (N) * Sir Daniel Macnee RSA (1806–1882) artist and President of the
Royal Scottish Academy The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country's national academy of art. It promotes contemporary art, contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy ...
(N) * Rev Dr James Calder Macphail DD (1821–1908) Free Church minister and pioneer photographer (N) * Robert McVitie (1854–1910) biscuit maker, creator of the
digestive biscuit A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi- sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland. The digestive was first developed in 1839 by two doctors to aid digestion. The term ''digestive'' is derived from the belief ...
(N) (cenotaph) * James Maidment (1793–1879) antiquarian (N) * David Duncan Main (1856–1934) medical missionary * Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple (1803–1870) * Dr Robert Bowes Malcolm
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(1807–1894) British obstetrician * Henry Marshall
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(1775–1851) physician and medical statistician * Very Rev Theodore Marshall DD (1846–1939),
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1908 (N) * Robert Matheson (architect) (1808–1877) * John Miller (1805–1883) half of the partnership Grainger & Miller, railway and dock engineers * Very Rev John Harry Miller (1869–1940) (N) * Janet Milne Rae (1844–1933), novelist * Very Rev James Mitchell DD (1830–1911)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland The moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year. After chairing the Ass ...
in 1901 * Rev John Murray Mitchell (1815–1904) missionary and orientalist (N) * Very Rev Reginald Mitchell-Innes (1848–1930) * Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet (1816–1918)
Lord Provost A lord provost () is the convenor of the local authority, the civic head and the lord-lieutenant of one of the principal cities of Scotland. The office is similar to that of a lord mayor. Only the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Stirlin ...
of Edinburgh 1897–1900 * James Moncireiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff (1811-1895) Scottish judge and politician * Alexander Monro (tertius) (1773–1859) physician of the Monro dynasty (LR) * James Francis Montgomery (1818–1897) first Dean of St Marys Episcopal Cathedral * Dr Charles Morehead (1807–1882) * William Ambrose Morehead (1805–1863) governor of Madras * Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928) artist * Rev Dr William Muir (1787–1869) Scottish divine and theological author.
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland The moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year. After chairing the Ass ...
in 1838 (bronze head by Sir John Steell) * James Muirhead (1830–1889) Professor of Civil Law at
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* David Mure, Lord Mure (1810–1891) judge * Sir John Murray (oceanographer) KCB (d. 1914) leader of the
Challenger Expedition The ''Challenger'' expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the naval vessel that undertook the trip, . The expedition, initiated by W ...
(N) * Robert Milne Murray (1855–1904) gynaecologist * James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of the
steam hammer A steam hammer, also called a drop hammer, is an industrial power hammer driven by steam that is used for tasks such as shaping forgings and driving piles. Typically the hammer is attached to a piston that slides within a fixed Pneumatic cylin ...
, monument by John Rhind (N) * Robert Nasmyth
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(1792–1870) dentist to
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* Dr Thomas Goodall Nasmyth
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(1855–1937) Medical Officer of Health to Fife, medical author (N) * Patrick Newbigging
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PRSSA (1813–1864) * Rev Dr Robert Nisbet (1814–1874) * Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand (1884–1962) (N) * Brownlow North (evangelist) (1810–1875) * Very Rev James Nicoll Ogilvie DD (1860–1928)
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in 1918. * Emily Murray Paterson RSW (1855–1934), artist * James Paterson RSA (1854–1932) artist * Sir James Balfour Paul (1846–1931) (N) * Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson (1843–1910) judge * John More Dick Peddie (1853–1921) architect (N) * Samuel Peploe (1871–1935) artist * Arthur Perigal RSA (1784–1847) artist * Alexander Mactier Pirrie (1882–1907) anthropologist (N) *
William Henry Playfair William Henry Playfair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (15 July 1790 – 19 March 1857) was a prominent Scottish architect in the 19th century who designed the Eastern, or Third, New Town, Edinburgh, New Town and many of Edinb ...
(1790–1857), architect * Olive Rae (1878–1933), operatic soprano * Rev Robert Rainy (1820–1906) and his son Adam Rolland Rainy MP * Prof Sir John Rankine (1846–1922) professor of Scots Law and legal author (N) * Robert Reid (architect) (1774–1856) architect of much of the
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* Robert Carstairs Reid (1845–1894) civil engineer * John Riddell (genealogist) (1785–1862) * Very Rev Dr George Ritchie (1808–1888)
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in 1870 * John Ritchie (1778–1870) and John Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898) newspaper tycoons * Dr Robert Peel Ritchie
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(1835–1902) medical historian * Joseph Robertson (1810–1866), antiquarian *
Alexander Ignatius Roche Alexander Ignatius Roche (17 August 1861 – 10 March 1921) RSA NEAC RP was a Scottish artist in the late 19th century and an important figure in the "Glasgow Boys". Life He was born in the Gallowgate in Glasgow, the son of a milliner, Alexand ...
(1861–1921) artist * Prof Henry Darwin Rogers (1808–1866) US-born geologist * A huge red granite
obelisk An obelisk (; , diminutive of (') ' spit, nail, pointed pillar') is a tall, slender, tapered monument with four sides and a pyramidal or pyramidion top. Originally constructed by Ancient Egyptians and called ''tekhenu'', the Greeks used th ...
to Alexander Russel, editor of
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(1814–1870) (N) * Alexander James Russell
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CS (1814–1887) lawyer * Sir James Russell (1846–1918)
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of Edinburgh 1891–94 * Very Rev James Curdie Russell DD VD (1830–1925)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland The moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year. After chairing the Ass ...
1902 (N) * Prof William Russell (physician) (1852–1940) discoverer of Russell bodies * Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd (1791–1852), designed by the adjacent Playfair * Prof William Rutherford Sanders
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(1828–1881) pathologist * Very Rev Dr Arcibald Scott DD (1837–1909) Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1896 * David Scott (painter) (1807–1849) * Andrew Edward Scougal
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LLD (1846–1916) chief inspector of schools * William Seller
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(1798–1869) physician and botanist * Patrick Shaw (legal writer) (1796–1872) * Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth (1796–1885) politician * Brigadier General Offley Shore (1863–1922) * Sir Henry John Forbes Simson (1872–1932) the obstetrician who delivered Queen
Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...
and
Princess Margaret Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She was the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II. ...
(N) * John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925) * Basil Skinner (1923–1995) historian and campaigner for architectural conservation * Robert T. Skinner
FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...
(1867–1946) historian and teacher * Prof George Gregory Smith (1865–1932) * John Smith (physician), Dr John Smith (1800–1879) President of the
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* Robert MacKay Smith
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(1802–1888) meteorologist and philanthropist * Dr John W. L. Spence (1870–1930) x-ray pioneer and martyr to radiology * Sir James Steel (1830–1904)
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(bust by John Stevenson Rhind) (N) * David Stevenson (engineer), David Stevenson (1815–1886), his son Charles Alexander Stevenson (1855–1950) (N) and grandson D. Alan Stevenson (1891–1971) (N), lighthouse engineers * Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) social reformer * Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) women's university education, women's suffrage * James Stevenson (merchant)
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(1786–1866) Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley cotton manufacturer * John James Stevenson (1831–1908) architect, son of above * Rev Robert Horne Stevenson DD (1812–1816) * John Stewart of Nateby Hall
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(1813–1867) naturalist * Prof Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart (1837–1900) and his daughter Agnes Grainger Stewart * William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge (1925–2012) * James Stirling (1800–1876) railway engineer and his wife, the author Susan Stirling * William James Stuart (1873–1958) President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1937 to 1939 (N) * Gabriel Surenne FSA (1777–1858) historian * Lt Gen Thomas Robert Swinburne British army officer and artist * George Swinton (botanist)
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(1780–1854) Chief Secretary of the Government in India * Major General Sir John Munro Sym (1839–1919) * Francis Darby Syme (1818–1871) trader in China involved in the coolie riots of 1852 * John Tait (architect), John Tait (1787–1856) architect * The Charles William Gray Taylor, Very Rev C W G Taylor CBE DD (d. 1950)
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1942 * Robert Tennent (photographer), Robert Tennent
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(1813–1890), pioneer photographer and his younger brother Hugh Lyon Tennent (1817–1874) (N) * D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1947) biologist * Prof Allen Thomson FRS
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(1809–1884) * Andrew Thomson (minister), Rev Dr Andrew Thomson DD (1814–1901) minister and religious author (N) * Lt Col Frank Wyville Thomson
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(1860–1918) public health expert in India * Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet MP (1875–1935) and Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet MP (1905–1972) politician father and son * Henry Alexis Thomson (1863–1924) Professor of Surgery * Robert William Thomson (1822–1873) engineer and inventor of the pneumatic tyre * Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768–1852) * William Thomson (physician), Prof William Thomson (1802–1852), medical author, professor of medicine at the University of Glasgow * Sir William Turner (anatomist) (1852–1916) and his son Arthur Logan Turner (1865–1939) (N) * Dr Charles Edward Underhill
FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...
(1856–1917) surgeon * William Veitch LLD (1794–1885) classical scholar * Major General James Conway Victor (1792–1864) military engineer * John Waddell (engineer), John Waddell (1828–1888) railway engineer * Norman Walker (dermatologist), Sir Norman Walker (1862–1942), dermatologist * Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922) artist * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1892–1895, Thomas Drummond Wanliss (1830–1923) Australian politician * Sir Patrick Heron Watson (1831–1907) Crimean War surgeon, Surgeon to the King (Scotland), first President of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital * William Watson, Baron Watson (1827–1899) law lord * Joseph Laing Waugh (1868–1928) author (medallion by William Birnie Rhind) * Rev Dr Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) (N) * David Wilkie (surgeon), Sir David Wilkie (1882–1938) surgeon and philanthropist * Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet (1809–1883) * Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971) Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary, Chaplain, Writer and Poet, and his wife Aeneas Francon Williams, Clara Anne Rendall, missionary, teacher and artist. * Wallace Williamson, Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856–1926) * John Wilson (singer), John Wilson (1800–1849) Scottish vocalist * Prof John Wilson (Scottish writer), John Wilson (1785–1854) author under the name of "Christopher North (writer), Christopher North" and his brother James Wilson (zoologist), James Wilson (1795–1856) a zoologist * Dr Jenny Wormald (1942–2015) historian * David Reginald Younger VC (memorial only)


Southern Terrace

* Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour (1856–1927) pioneer of gynaecology * Sir George Andreas Berry MP (1853–1940) eye surgeon * Benjamin Blyth II, Benjamin Hall Blyth (1849–1917) civil engineer * Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922) chemist * Memorial to George Brown (Canadian politician) (1819–1880) plus the grave of Anne Nelson, his wife (1823–1906) * Thomas Graham Brown (1882–1965) mountaineer and physiologist * Duncan Cameron (Scottish inventor), Duncan Cameron, (1825–1901), owner of ''The Oban Times'' newspaper and inventor of The "''Waverley''" nib (pen), nib pen and his daughter, Mary Cameron (painter) (1865–1921) * Robert Carfrae FSAScot (1820–1900) antiquarian * Thomas Clouston (psychiatrist), Thomas Clouston (1840–1915) psychiatrist * Francis Brodie Imlach (1819–1891) pioneer of dentistry and anaesthesia * Rev Dr Robert Reid Kalley (1809–1888) missionary * Peter McBride (physician), Dr Peter McBride
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(1854–1946) physician * William Mackintosh, Lord Kyllachy
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(1842–1918) Senator of the College of Justice * Rev Angus Makellar (d. 1859) Moderator of the Church of Scotland for 1840 * Sir William Muir (1819–1905) Scottish Orientalist * Samuel Alexander Pagan (1793–1867) President of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) is a medical royal college in Scotland. It is one of three organisations that set the specialty training standards for physicians in the United Kingdom. It was established by royal charter i ...
1846 to 1848 * Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) artist * Victor Noel-Paton, Baron Ferrier (1900–1992) * Sir John Skelton (1831–1897) and his wife Dame Jane Adair Skelton (1847–1925) * David Wallace (surgeon), Sir David Wallace (1862–1952) urologist * Alexander Wood (physician), Dr Alexander Wood (1817–1884) inventor of the hypodermic syringe


Twentieth century extension

* Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson (1862–1936) Senator of the College of Justice * John George Bartholomew map-maker (cenotaph) * Walter Lorrain Brodie (1884–1918), Victoria Cross recipient (cenotaph) * Andrew Constable, Lord Constable (1865–1928) * William Skeoch Cumming (1864–1929) artist * Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (1860–1917) * Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Charles Scott Dickson, Lord Dickson (1850–1922) * Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (1866–1930) newspaper magnate * Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher (1929–1989) MP 1973 to 1987 * John Alexander Ford (1864–1925) artist * Very Rev James Rae Forgan (1876–1966)
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1940 * Margaret Neill Fraser (1880–1915) lady golfer and heroine of the
First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
memorialised on grave of Patrick Neill Fraser
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(buried in Serbia where she died) * John George Govan (1861–1927) founder of the Faith Mission * Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866–1960) * Rev Andrew Harper DD (1844–1936) * John Robertson Henderson
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(1863–1925) zoologist * Lady Caroline and Lord Walter James Hore, Baron Ruthven of Gowrie (1838–1921) * George Hutchison (Unionist MP) (1873–1928) * John Alexander Inglis (1873–1941) historian and author * Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (1880–1937) architect * George Auldjo Jamieson (1827–1900) accountant and company director * David Smiles Jerdan
FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...
(1871–1951) businessman and horticulturalist * Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (1857–1934) judge and politician * Stewart Kaye (1886–1952) architect * Joseph Fairweather Lamb
FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...
(1928–2015) physiologist * George Macdonald (archaeologist), Sir George Macdonald (1862–1940) archaeologist * Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher MP (1929–1989) * Father John Maitland Moir (1924–2013) priest * Alexander Munro MacRobert (1873–1930) MP and Lord Advocate * Sir Walter Mercer (1890–1971) surgeon * George F. Merson
FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...
(1866–1959) pharmacist * Thomas Brash Morison (1868–1945) Senator of the College of Justice * Robert Muir (pathologist), Sir Robert Muir FRS (1864–1959) pathologist, and his sister, Anne Davidson Muir RSW (1875–1951) artist * Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927) economist * Ella Pirrie (1857–1929) friend and colleague of Florence Nightingale, first head nurse of Belfast City Hospital and first superintendent of the Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh * Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (1857–1942) (bronze by Henry Snell Gamley) including the grave of his father-in-law, John Trayner, Lord Trayner * David Scott-Barrett, Sir David William Scott-Barrett (1922–2003) * Alistair Smart (1922–1992) art historian * Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975) poet and artist * Lewis Spence (1874–1955) journalist, author and poet * Douglas Strachan HRSA (1875–1950) stained glass window designer * Henry Wade (surgeon), Sir Henry Wade (1876–1955) surgeon * Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson (1869–1948)
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1929 to 1932


Other monuments of interest

* Monument to John George Bartholomew, map-maker (buried in Portugal) on the north wall of the twentieth-century cemetery extension (sculpted by Pilkington Jackson) * Monument to Robert Dunsmure and his brothers, all of whom died abroad * Monument to Col Lauderdale Maule and the 79th Cameron Highlanders marking their role in the
Crimean War The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
at Alma River (Ukraine), Alma and Sevastopol. The rear of the monument commemorates their part in the Indian Mutiny at Lucknow * Monument to the Edinburgh-born Confederate Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, Colonel Robert A. Smith who died in 1862 at Munfordsville, Kentucky, Munfordsville, Kentucky in the American Civil War * Monument to historian John Hill Burton, who is buried at Dalmeny. Monument in Dean is by William Brodie * Monument to John Wilson (singer), John Wilson (1800–1849), vocalist (buried in Quebec), also subject of a memorial at the foot of Calton Hill * The Cemetery contains the war graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 from World War I and 10 from World War II, registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The oldest soldier buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym KCB (1839–1919) aged 80 (this is a normal grave not a CWGC grave). Most of the war graves lie in the independently accessed twentieth-century section to the north of the main cemetery. * Robert Digby-Jones Victoria Cross, VC is memorialised on his parents' grave in the north extension. * Monument to the orphans dying at the immediately adjacent Dean Orphanage


References


Bibliography

* ''The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh'' edited by A. S. Cowper and Euan S. McIver, Edinburgh, 1992. .


External links


Official website
* {{Authority control Burials at the Dean Cemetery, Cemeteries in Edinburgh Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh Tourist attractions in Edinburgh Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Scotland 1846 establishments in Scotland