Historic Victorian cemetery in Edinburgh
The Lords Row, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Autumn in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
The huge Buchanan Memorial, Dean Cemetery
The south-west section of Dean Cemetery
George Frampton figure, Dean Cemetery
The large and ornate monument to James Leishman, Dean Cemetery
The gothic masterpiece to David Jeffrey (1817–1905), Dean Cemetery
The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the
Dean Village , west of
Edinburgh 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,
[1] was laid out by
David Cousin (an Edinburgh architect who also laid out
Warriston Cemetery ) 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.
[2] 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
[3] ) 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 ,
Francis John Williamson ,
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
Stone carving from Dean House, now part of retaining wall in Dean Cemetery
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
Lord Provost of Edinburgh . The Nisbets of Dean held the office of Hereditary
Poulterer to the King. The famous herald,
Alexander Nisbet , of
Nisbet House , near
Duns, Scottish Borders ,
Berwickshire , 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.
[4]
Notable interments
Bust of artist and photography pioneer David Octavius Hill, sculpted by his second wife
Relief on the gravestone of Lt. John Irving, who died on the Franklin Expedition
Grave of Arctic explorer and surgeon, Robert Anstruther Goodsir M.D. who joined the search for the Franklin Expedition
Internal section to NW, Dean Cemetery
Original cemetery
"N" denotes location in the first northern extension. "LR" denotes location in the Lords Row.
Will Thomson, Dean Cemetery extension
The 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924)
Lord Adam (1824–1914),
Senator of the College of Justice (N)
Sir James Ormiston Affleck
FRSE LLD (1840–1922), physician and author (N)
Sir Stair Agnew (1831–1916)
Rev David Aitken
FRSE (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
FRSE (1806–1863), mineralogist
Sir Robert George Allan
FRSE (1879–1972), agriculturalist
Major General William Allan (1832–1918), a general in the
Crimean War
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
FRSE (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
University of Edinburgh , personal surgeon of
Queen Victoria
John Bellany (1942–2013), artist
Dr
John Hughes Bennett (1812–1875), physiologist
Isabella Bird , married name Bishop (1831–1904), traveller, writer and photographer. First female Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
Alexander Black (1797–1858), architect
Alexander William Black MP (1859–1906)
Very Rev. James Black DD (d. 1948),
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 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
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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
Edinburgh University
Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997), sculptor
Sir Thomas Jamieson (1818–1902),
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1877–82
[5] (N)
Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847–1921), brain surgeon
Edwin Bramwell
FRSE (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)
James Buchanan and Jane Buchanan, philanthropists
John Young Buchanan FRS FRSE (1844–1925), oceanographer
Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), sculptor
Dr
John Graham MacDonald Burt
FRSE (1809–1868), President of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Samuel Butcher (1850–1910), professor of Greek at
Edinburgh University , President of the
British Academy ,
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 ,
Dundee jute barons and philanthropists
Major Donald Fraser Callander (1918–1992), soldier
General
Sir John Campbell of the
East India Company
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
FRSE (1829–1916), editor of
The Scotsman 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
FRSE (1851–1908), botanist
Rev Prof
Thomas Jackson Crawford
FRSE (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
Dublin -born son,
General
Sir Alan Cunningham (1887–1983)
Robert James Blair Cunynghame
FRSE (1841–1903), forensic scientist and physiologist
Allen Dalzell
FRSE (1821–1869), pharmacologist
Dr
Robert Daun
FRSE
FRCP (1785–1871), military surgeon (LR)
Marcus Dods DD (1834–1909), theologian
Dr
Andrew Halliday Douglas (1819–1908), President of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , and his namesake son, Rev. Prof. A.H. Douglas (d. 1902), author and Professor of Apologetic at Know College,
Toronto
Francis Brown Douglas
FRSE DL (1814–1885),
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1859–62
Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), PRSA artist
Bishop
John Dowden (1840–1910),
Bishop of Edinburgh
Thomas Drybrough (1820–1894), brewer
Finlay Dun (1795–1853), musician and composer
John Duncan (surgeon)
FRSE (1839–1899), President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889–91
Henry Dunlop of Craigton (1799–1867),
Lord Provost of Glasgow 1837 to 1840
James Dunsmure
FRSE (1814–1886), President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
FRSE (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),
Lord Provost (N)
Vice Admiral
Charles Fellowes (1823–1880) (N)
James Haig Ferguson
FRSE (1863–1934), President of both the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 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
FRSE (1828–1899)
Prof
John Fleming (1785–1857)
Prof
Edward Forbes (1815–1854), naturalist
Prof
James David Forbes (1809–1868), inventor of the
seismometer
Sir Patrick Johnston Ford ,
Baronet , 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
FRSE (1844–1925), Commissioner of Lunacy in Scotland 1895–1910
Lord Fraser (1817–1889), jurist
Patrick Neill Fraser ,
FRSE (d. 1905), botanist (plus a cenotaph to his daughter
Margaret Neill Fraser , buried in Serbia during the
First World War )
Thomas Richard Fraser (1841–1920), pathologist (N)
Sir William Fraser (1816–1898)
Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), artist
George Alexander Gibson (1854–1913), doctor and amateur geologist, Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh , Chief Physician at
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (N)
Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet (1849–1912), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906–1909, MP for Edinburgh 1909–1912
James Young Gibson (1826–1886), author/translator (bronze by
Francis John Williamson ) plus his wife
Margaret Dunlop Smith (1843–1920), also an author
John Goodsir (1814–1867), anatomist
Robert Anstruther Goodsir (1823–1899), doctor and Arctic explorer
The Baron Gordon of Drumearn (1814–1879)
Sir Alexander Grant , 10th Bt. (1826–1884), educationalist and Principal of
Edinburgh University
John Peter Grant , MP (1774–1848)
Sir Ludovic Grant , 11th Baronet of Dalvey (1862–1836)
Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866), botanist
Lord Guthrie (1849–1920), Senator of the College of Justice
William Guy , FRSE (1860–1950), pioneer of modern dentistry
Daniel Rutherford Haldane
FRSE PRCPE (1824–1887)
James Haliburton (1788–1862), Egyptologist
James, 9th Baron Belhaven and Stenton (1822–1893), monument including a bronze by
Pilkington Jackson
Lord Handyside (1798–1858)
Joseph James Hargrave (1841–1894) of the
Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)
John Harrison
FRSE CBE LLD (1847–1922), master tailor and author, son of
Sir George Harrison , MP
Sir Lewis John Erroll Hay , 9th Baronet of Park (1866–1923) (N)
Andrew Fergus Hewat
FRSE , (1884–1957)
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), artist and photography pioneer,
Hill & Adamson . The monument is by his second wife,
Amelia Robertson Hill (née Paton) (1820–1904) who is buried with him
Sir James Hodsdon (1858–1928), surgeon, President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914–1917
Franklin Hudson (1864–1918), American-born osteopath (N)
Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936), artist (pair of sculpted heads by
John Stevenson Rhind )
Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866–1925),
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1921–1923
Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), pioneer female doctor and war hero (N)
Alexander Taylor Innes
FRSE LLD (1833–1912), lawyer and historian
John Irving (1822–1848 or 49), lieutenant aboard
HMS Terror , part of the
Franklin Expedition searching for the
Northwest Passage ; his body was found on
King William Island (in modern-day
Nunavut ,
Canada ) 30 years later and re-interred at Dean Cemetery, 7 November 1881 (monument is carved by
Stewart McGlashan )
Sir William Allan Jamieson (1839–1916), surgeon and medical author, President of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1908–1910
Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) (LR)
Charles Jenner
FRSE (1810–1893), founder of
Jenners Department Store on
Princes Street
Lord Johnston (1844–1931),
Senator of the College of Justice (N)
Sir William Campbell Johnston
FRSE 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 (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 , etc. (N)
All four
Barons Kinross , spanning almost two centuries (LR)
John Watson Laidlay
FRSE (1808–1885), coin collector and orientalist
William Law (1799–1878),
Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1869 to 1872
Right Hon
Lord Lee
FRSE (1830–1890), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
Rev
Cameron Lees (1835–1913)
James Leslie
FRSE (1801–1889), engineer, and his son,
Alexander Leslie
John Lessels (1808–1883), City architect (N)
David Lind (1797–1856), builder of the
Scott Monument
[6]
Dr
William Lauder Lindsay
FRSE 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
George MacRitchie Low
FRSE ,
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
FRSE (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 (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 in Italy
Lord Mackenzie (1807–1869),
Senator of the College of Justice
Very Rev
Dugald Mackichan (1851–1932)
Andrew Douglas Maclagan
FRSE (1817–1900), physician and toxicologist, and his son
Robert Craig Maclagan
David Maclagan
FRSE (1785–1865) military surgeon, surgeon to
Queen Victoria in Scotland
Very Rev Norman Macleod
DD (1838–1911)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1900 (N)
Donald Mackenzie (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie
Rev
Hugh MacMillan
FRSE (1833–1903) (N)
Sir
Daniel Macnee RSA (1806–1882) artist and President of the
Royal 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 (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
FRSE (1807–1894) British obstetrician
Henry Marshall
FRSE (1775–1851) physician and medical statistician
Very Rev
Theodore Marshall DD (1846–1939),
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 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 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 of Edinburgh 1897–1900
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 in 1838 (bronze head by
Sir John Steell )
James Muirhead (1830–1889) Professor of Civil Law at
Edinburgh University
David Mure, Lord Mure (1810–1891) judge
Sir
John Murray (oceanographer) KCB (d. 1914) leader of the
Challenger Expedition (N)
Robert Milne Murray (1855–1904) gynaecologist
James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of the
steam hammer , monument by
John Rhind (N)
Robert Nasmyth
FRSE (1792–1870) dentist to
Queen Victoria
Dr
Thomas Goodall Nasmyth
FRSE (1855–1937) Medical Officer of Health to Fife, medical author (N)
Patrick Newbigging
FRSE 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)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 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 (1790–1857), architect
Major General John Pringle (1774–1861)
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
New Town
Robert Carstairs Reid (1845–1894) civil engineer
John Riddell (genealogist) (1785–1862)
Very Rev Dr George Ritchie (1808–1888)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1870
John Ritchie (1778–1870) and
John Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898) newspaper tycoons
Dr
Robert Peel Ritchie
FRSE (1835–1902) medical historian
Joseph Robertson (1810–1866), antiquarian
Alexander Ignatius Roche (1861–1921) artist
Prof
Henry Darwin Rogers (1808–1866) US-born geologist
A huge red granite
obelisk to
Alexander Russel , editor of
The Scotsman (1814–1870) (N)
Alexander James Russell
FRSE CS (1814–1887) lawyer
Sir
James Russell (1846–1918)
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1891–94
Very Rev
James Curdie Russell
DD VD (1830–1925)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 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
FRSE (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
FRSE LLD (1846–1916) chief inspector of schools
William Seller
FRSE (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 and
Princess Margaret (N)
John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925)
Basil Skinner (1923–1995) historian and campaigner for architectural conservation
Robert T. Skinner
FRSE (1867–1946) historian and teacher
Prof
George Gregory Smith (1865–1932)
Dr John Smith (1800–1879) President of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Robert MacKay Smith
FRSE (1802–1888) meteorologist and philanthropist
Dr
John W. L. Spence (1870–1930) x-ray pioneer and martyr to radiology
Sir James Steel (1830–1904)
Lord Provost of Edinburgh (bust by
John Stevenson Rhind ) (N)
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)
FRSE (1786–1866)
Paisley cotton manufacturer
John James Stevenson (1831–1908) architect, son of above
Rev
Robert Horne Stevenson DD (1812–1816)
John Stewart of Nateby Hall
FRSE (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)
FRSE (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 (1787–1856) architect
The
Very Rev C W G Taylor CBE DD (d. 1950)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1942
Robert Tennent
FRSE (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
FRSE (1809–1884)
Rev Dr Andrew Thomson DD (1814–1901) minister and religious author (N)
Lt Col
Frank Wyville Thomson
FRSE (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)
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 (1856–1917) surgeon
William Veitch LLD (1794–1885) classical scholar
Major General
James Conway Victor (1792–1864) military engineer
John Waddell (1828–1888) railway engineer
Sir Norman Walker (1862–1942), dermatologist
Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922) artist
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
[7]
Aeneas Francon Williams and
Clara Anne Rendall , Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Southern Terrace
Dean Cemetery, south terrace
The grave of Lt Col Walter Hamilton Tyndall Bruce, south terrace, Dean Cemetery
20th century extension
Monument to Elizabeth Dunlop Barclay by Henry Snell Gamley (1923)
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 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)
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1940
Margaret Neill Fraser (1880–1915) lady golfer and heroine of the
First World War memorialised on grave of Patrick Neill Fraser
FRSE (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
FRSE (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 (1871–1951) businessman and horticulturalist
Christopher Nicholson Johnston ,
Lord Sands (1857–1934) judge and politician
Stewart Kaye (1886–1952) architect
Joseph Fairweather Lamb
FRSE (1928–2015) physiologist
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 (1866–1959) pharmacist
Thomas Brash Morison (1868–1945) Senator of the College of Justice
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
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
Sir Henry Wade (1876–1955) surgeon
Sir
Thomas Barnby Whitson (1869–1948)
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1929 to 1932
Other monuments of interest
Colonel Smith's Monument
References
Bibliography
The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh edited by A. S. Cowper and Euan S. McIver, Edinburgh, 1992.
ISBN
0901061549 .
External links
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