The cafe overlooks Greyfriars Kirkyard and, from certain seats, probably has one of the best views of Edinburgh Castle in the city.
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I visited Greyfriar's Kirkyard, a cemetery next to the cafe where JK Rowling wrote some of the first books in the series.
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Then again, Edinburgh—and indeed, Greyfriars Kirkyard—has form when it comes to pandering fantastical bullshit to tourists, cynically exploited by local business owners, and indulged by the press.
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His grave, nestled within the city's Greyfriars Kirkyard, has become a pilgrimage for hundreds of visitors every day, who trek to the site to see an inscription that possibly inspired the naming of a character in a book.
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He died at Edinburgh and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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Two of Robert Burns' nieces are buried in the kirkyard.
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Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1817 He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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The kirkyard is a modern wall around the extensions to the north and west. There are war memorials (First and Second World Wars) in the kirkyard."HU5565 : World War 2 Memorial at Whalsay Kirk", Geograph. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
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The Kirkyard and its monuments are protected as a category A listed building.
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He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard against the east wall of the church.
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He is buried in the family plot in the western extension of Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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He died in Edinburgh in May 1797, and was buried there in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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The Carstares grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard The grave of William Carstares (detail), Greyfriars Kirkyard Plaque to William Carstares, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh William Carstares (also Carstaires) (11 February 164928 December 1715) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, active in Whig politics.
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He died on 24 December 1796. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh.
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He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the sealed section known as the Covenanters Prison.
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Since 1841 he had been an associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1851 he was elected a royal academician. The grave of Sir John Watson Gordon, Canongate Kirkyard He is buried in the eastern extension of Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
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The tomb of Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, Greyfriars Kirkyard Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, just north of Dumfries (1731–1815) was a Scottish banker, shareholder in the Carron Company engineering works and inventor. Miller is buried in a tomb against the southern wall of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
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Grave of W Y Macgregor, Logie Kirkyard He died in Oban on 28 September 1923. He is buried in Old Logie Kirkyard east of Bridge of Allan. The graveyard lies a few hundred metres north of the modern Logie Cemetery. The grave is against the north wall.
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Willcock, p 421 He was first interred in Greyfriars Kirkyard and later reburied at Kilmun Parish Church.
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Alllardyce died in office on 1 November 1801. He was buried at St Nicholas Kirkyard, in Aberdeen.
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He is buried with Mary in the Canongate Kirkyard. The grave lies midway along the western boundary wall.
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The Canongate Kirkyard has been calculated to have 62 tombs, 140 monuments and 150 wall plaques, ledgers, etc.
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He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. His memorial stands on the north face of the church.
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To the east of the tolbooth, down the Royal Mile, is the Kirk of the Canongate and the Canongate Kirkyard.
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He was released from the Bass to die in Edinburgh and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard on 23 September 1686.
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She is buried against the western boundary wall of Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile. Her husband is buried beside her.
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Ruddiman, 1749 The grave of Thomas Ruddiman, Greyfriars Kirkyard Thomas Ruddiman (October 1674 – 19 January 1757) was a Scottish classical scholar.
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The first five viscounts (including Henry Dundas) are buried in a simple vault (gated but unlocked) in Old Lasswade Kirkyard. The 6th Viscount Melville, Charles Saunders Dundas, lies opposite his wife, Mary Hamilton Dundas, in the small north cemetery in Lasswade, adjacent to the old kirkyard. Their son, the 7th Viscount merely appears as a footnote on the monument.
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The grave of William Trotter of Ballindean, Greyfriars Kirkyard He died at home, 13 Abercromby Place in Edinburgh;s Second New Town on 16 August 1833. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave lies in the extreme north-east corner of the western extension. Both Ballindean and Abercromby Place survive and both are listed buildings.
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Andrew's daughter Annie married her cousin David and the wealth was consolidated over the generations. George Yule is interred at Dunnottar kirkyard.
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Gregory is buried with his siblings in his parents burial plot in the south-west corner of Canongate Kirkyard, next to Adam Smith.
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The grave of Lord MacLeod, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod (17272 April 1789) was a Scottish Jacobite and soldier of fortune.
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They are buried together in the Canongate Kirkyard in the lair of Alexander Bonar (and his parents), near the bottom of the eastern extension.
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The grave of Alexander Christison, Greyfriars Kirkyard Prof Alexander Christison FRSE (1751–1820) was a Scottish educator and mathematician of influence during the Scottish Enlightenment.
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He is buried in the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard generally called the Covenanter's Prison together with his wife and other family members.
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World Champion Formula One driver Jim Clark (1936-1968) was buried in Chirnside Kirkyard, after his death in April 1968 at the Hockenheimring in Germany.
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Galloway was married to Margaret Wallace (1809–1884), daughter of the mathematician William Wallace. She is buried next to her father in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
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He died at Simpson's Hotel in Edinburgh on 14 September 1834, aged 74, and was buried on 20 September 1834, in William Adam's mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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Ritchie was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, and commemorated on the Ritchie Findlay family memorial in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. Ritchie was survived by his wife Alison Sandeman.
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Greyfriars Bobby's Bar Bobby's headstone in Greyfriars Kirkyard The Greyfriars Bobby Fountain in Edinburgh includes a life-size statue of Greyfriars Bobby created by William Brodie in 1872. It was paid for by a local aristocrat, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and unveiled on 15 November 1873.Buildings of Scotland; Edinburgh by Colin McWilliam It stands near the south (main) entrance to Greyfriars Kirkyard. The monument is Edinburgh's smallest listed building.
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Marshall 2009, p. 53. In 1561, the kirkyard to the south of the church was closed and most subsequent burials were conducted at Greyfriars Kirkyard.Marshall 2009, p. 61.
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Norman MacLeod died on 21 July 1772, and was buried in the kirkyard of St Andrews Cathedral, in St Andrews. He was succeeded by his grandson, Norman MacLeod.
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He died in early 1621, and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Perth, where his monument, including a 1774 tablet added by his descendant Robert Mylne, still stands.
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He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh in a vault against the southern wall. Sibbald mausoleum in Greyfriars, Edinburgh The wild flower Sibbaldia procumbens is named after him.
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The grave of Admiral Alexander Graeme, Greyfriars Kirkyard Admiral Alexander Graeme (9 December 1741 – 5 August 1818) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
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Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at the southern edge of the Old Town, 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 City of Edinburgh Council in liaison with a charitable trust, which is linked to but separate from the church.
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Albumen print (c.1865) thought to be of Greyfriars Bobby The best-known version of the story is that Bobby belonged to John Gray, who worked for the Edinburgh City Police as a nightwatchman. When John Gray died he was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, the kirkyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Bobby then became known locally, spending the rest of his life sitting on his master's grave.greyfriarsbobby.co.uk (11 February 2013).
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Alexander Edward died in Edinburgh, and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The antiquary Robert Sibbald described him as a "great master in architecture, and contrivance of avenues, gardens and orchards".
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The final scene of Wuthering Heights shows Lockwood passing by the graves of Heathcliff, Catherine, and Edgar Linton at the local kirkyard and commenting on the tranquility of the scene.
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Robert Scott Moncrieff by Sir Henry Raeburn The Scott Moncrieff graves, Greyfriars Kirkyard Robert Scott Moncrieff (1 December 1793 – 18 June 1869) was a Scottish advocate, amateur illustrator and caricaturist.
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Douglas is buried in the ground south of the church in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh and a memorial lies on the outer south face of the church near the east gable.
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The grave of Robert Kerr, Greyfriars Kirkyard Dr Robert Kerr FRSE FAS FRCSE (20 October 1757 – 11 October 1813) was a Scottish surgeon, writer on scientific and other subjects, and translator.
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The Pitcairne vault within the Covenanter's Prison, Greyfriars Kirkyard Lorenzo Bellini, Opuscula, 1695, dedicated to Archibald Pitcairne Pitcairne died in Edinburgh on 20 October 1713, aged 60. He had been a great collector of books, and his library, which is said to have been of considerable value, was, through the influence of Ruddiman, sold to Peter the Great of Russia. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard with his wife Elizabeth Stevenson (d.1734) and his daughters.
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When the Highland army entered the city, however, he fled to York, where he was invited to stay by the Archbishop of York. Memorial, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh On his journey south, Maclaurin fell from his horse, and the fatigue, anxiety, and cold to which he was exposed on that occasion laid the foundations of dropsy. He returned to Edinburgh after the Jacobite army marched south, but died soon after his return. He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
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William Brodie, 1868, Perth Museum The grave of Alexander MacDuff, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Alexander MacDuff of Bonhard WS FRSE (5 December 1816–21 March 1866) was a Scottish lawyer, landowner and agriculturalist.
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Foss retired from GCHQ in 1953 to live at Glendarroch in St. John's Town of Dalry, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. He died in 1971 and is buried with his wife Alison in Dalry Kirkyard.
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92-93 Boswell's remains were interred in the crypt of the Boswell family mausoleum in what is now the old Auchinleck Kirkyard in Ayrshire. The mausoleum is attached to the old Auchinleck Kirk.
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Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies by Robert Scott Moncrieff. Lord Gillies' Edinburgh townhouse at 16 York Place The grave of Adam Gillies, Greyfriars Kirkyard. Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies (1760–1842) was a Scottish judge.
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Lothian's house - Canongate Manse The grave of Rev William Lothian, Canongate Kirkyard Rev William Lothian DD FRSE (1740–1783) was a Scottish minister, author and joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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He died on 1 August 1837 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, however a memorial was erected to his memory on the western boundary wall in 1996.
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He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the Adam family vault next to the Robertson vault. His house was demolished around 1900 to build a Woolworths store. It is now the Apple Store.
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Entrance to the Schaw Aisle The church stood in its Kirkyard towards the east end of its glebe of green fields at the seaside coast of the River Clyde, adjacent to the west bank of the West Burn estuary. The manse was to the north of the kirkyard, near the sea. The kirk's rectangular nave was oriented roughly north–south, with the entrance at the south gable. Inside, paving just over wide ran from there to the north wall, and formed a passageway.
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He died in Dumfries. He and his wife are buried in Dalry Kirkyard. The Donald Watson Gallery, an exhibition space for wildlife artists at Waterston House in Aberlady, East Lothian is named after him.
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He died at his home in Covenant Close, Edinburgh of rectal cancer on 10 July 1767. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the centre of Edinburgh with his wife and son, Alexander secundus.
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V p.39 He died in Edinburgh on 14 April 1810. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. He lies beneath a table stone north-west of the church, before the lower terrace.
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He died at home 41 George Square, EdinburghEdinburgh Post Office Directory 1826 on 28 May 1826. He is buried with his parents in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The distinctive tomb lies against the eastern boundary wall.
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General Sir William Hope's Grave, Inveresk Parish Kirkyard General Sir William Hope, 14th Baronet Hope of Craighall, (12 January 1819 – 5 September 1898) was a British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland.
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Lockhart is buried in the tomb of Sir George Mackenzie, in Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath (c. 1630 – 1689) was a Scottish advocate, judge and commissioner to parliament who was brutally murdered.
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Aberlemno II: Kirkyard Stone, Class II Pictish Stone The Aberlemno Sculptured Stones are a series of five Class I and II Early Medieval standing stones found in and around the village of Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland.
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The grave of General Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville, Dundas Vault, Old Lasswade Kirkyard General Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville GCB (25 February 1801 – 1 February 1876) was a senior British Army officer and peer.
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The grave of Alexander James Adie, Greyfriars Kirkyard He married Alexander Adie's daughter Janet Mary Adie (1808–1842) in 1836 and had one daughter, Janet Mary Jane Henderson (1842–1893). He died at home 1 Hillside Crescent in Edinburgh on 23 November 1844 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave may be either in the grave of Alexander Adie or in a grave marked by the stone "to his memory". His name is not recorded on the Adie grave; Adie himself died 14 years after Henderson.
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In 1761 Whytt was made first physician to King George III in Scotland—a post specially created for him—and on 1 December 1763 he was elected president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; he held the presidency till his death at Edinburgh on 15 April 1766. The grave of Robert Whytt, Greyfriars Kirkyard His remains were given a public funeral, and were interred in a private vault (built two years earlier) in the now sealed section of Greyfriars Kirkyard known as the Covenanter's Prison.
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His proposer was Sir Robert Christison. He died at home 3 London StreetEdinburgh Post Office Directory 1852 in Edinburgh's Second New Town on 7 April 1852. He is buried next to his parents in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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He died on 28 April 1876 at Poynter's Grove in Totteridge in Hertfordshire and is buried in the family plot in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies on the western wall of the western extension.
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He died in 1715 in his house at the foot of what is now Advocates CloseCassell's Old and New Edinburgh, and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Stewart is the advocate who gives his name to Advocates Close.
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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville The Dundas Vault in old Lasswade Kirkyard, containing the first five Viscounts Melville Viscount Melville, of Melville in the County of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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He died at Catrine, Ayrshire on 23 January 1785, but was buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. As the burial was during a period of strict regulation of stones (effectively a ban) the grave is unmarked.
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Henry Mackenzie died on 14 January 1831 at his Georgian townhouse at 6 Heriot Row. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, in a grave facing north in the centre of the north retaining wall.Retrieved 27 May 2019.
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The Hope grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh The tablet to John Hope, Greyfriars Kirkyard Professor John Hope (10 May 1725 – 10 November 1786) was a Scottish physician and botanist. Although he did enormous work on plant classification and plant physiology, due to an absence of publications, he is now best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1784 Hope was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1784-6).
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A 'sanctuary stone' in the kirkyard marks the centre of an 'area of sanctuary' that once extended one Scots mile around. The east and west 'sanctuary stones' still stand in their original positions. It has been suggested that these stones are of much earlier origin than the medieval Preceptory, possibly being related to the important Neolithic henge and burial mound at Cairnpapple Hill, to the east. The large kirkyard has a fine collection of 17th–18th century headstones, with much intriguing 'folk art', including symbols of mortality, tools representing professions etc.
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Byer's tenement and bank (left) facing onto the Tolbooth Prison and St Giles Coates House, Edinburgh The grave of John Byres of Coates, Greyfriars Kirkyard Symbolic carvings on the tomb of John Byres of Coates, Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir John Byres of Coates (1569-1629) was a 16th/17th century Scottish banker and merchant who served as Treasurer and Old Provost for Edinburgh Town Council. Old Provost is the equivaleny of Deputy Provost. Byers Close on the Royal Mile is named after him.The Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh: The Old Edinburgh Club.
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He was married to Christian Forbes. Their eldest son was also Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar (1768-1832) was knighted a baronet during the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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Edinburgh Post Office directory 1775 He held the role of Lord Provost for only four months, being elected in September 1776 and dying in office on 21 January 1777. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard on 23 January.
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The austere vault of the Scotts of Thirlestane, Greyfriars Kirkyard, built to defend against grave-robbing Sir William Scott, 2nd Baronet of Thirlestane (c.1670 – 8 October 1725) was a Scottish lawyer, known as a neo-Latin poet.
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His sister Margaret was mother to James Haldane Tait who served under him several times and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Henrietta and her children are buried in Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh east of the church.
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Graham Fyvie, Robert Cadell and Robert Cunningham Graham Spiers, by Hill & Adamson. The grave of Robert Cadell, Greyfriars Kirkyard Robert Cadell (16 December 1788 – 20 January 1849) was a bookseller and publisher closely associated with Sir Walter Scott.
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Prison in Greyfriars Kirkyard, where captured Covenanters were held after Bothwell Bridge Claverhouse returned to Glasgow, which the Covenanters briefly besieged but could not take without artillery.T. Ratcliffe Barnett (1928). The Story of the Covenant. Oliver and Boyd.
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His body was returned to Edinburgh for burial in the family vault, which lies within the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard known as the Covenanter's Prison. His biography (1859) was written by his friend John William Burgon.
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Grierson died without issue in 1760 and was buried at Dunscore Parish Kirkyard. He was succeeded by his younger brother's son, Sir Robert Grierson, 3rd Baronet, of Lag, who was born in about 1700 and died childless in 1764.
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From 1988 until 1998 he was seconded as Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission. In 1988 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He died on 18 June 2009 and was cremated, and his ashes are buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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10 Hill Street, Edinburgh The grave of Patrick Steuart Newbigging, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Patrick Steuart Newbigging FRSE WS (1809-1849) was a short-lived Scottish lawyer and legal author. He was a Member of the Edinburgh Society of Arts.
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He died in 1786. He is buried with his wife, the Hon Catherine Pallet, in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh close to the eastern path. His heir was his nephew, John Drummond, who also succeeded him as MP for Shaftesbury.
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Lewis Gordon's childhood home at 27 London Street, Edinburgh Poynter's Grove, Totteridge, in the early 1900s. The grave of Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Prof Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon FRSE (1815–1876) was a Scottish civil engineer.
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He lived at 7 Hope Street, just off Charlotte Square in Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1830–31 He died on 13 December 1831 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. On his death his professorship was not refilled.
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Robertson is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The grave is within a large stone mausoleum, second only to William Adam's mausoleum immediately to the south. Both stand to the south-west of the church, near the entrance to the Covenanters' Prison.
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The Sands Of Morar The grave of William York Macgregor, Old Logie Kirkyard William York Macgregor (14 October 1855 Finnart House, Loch Long, Dunbartonshire – 28 September 1923 Oban) was a Scottish landscape painter, and leading figure of the Glasgow Boys.
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A map of the historic development of the area around Greyfriars Greyfriars is set among Greyfriars Kirkyard, which is bounded to the north by the Grassmarket and to the east by Candlemaker Row. This is the same site given to the Observatine Franciscans during the reign of James I at the edge of the Old Town of Edinburgh. It was then a relatively open space: there were only two tenements at the eastern side of the grounds; now the north and east sides of the kirkyard are enclosed by buildings.Steele 1993, p. 5.Bryce 1912, p. 8.
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Grave of James Craig in Greyfriars Kirkyard Craig died at his house at West BowEdinburgh Post Office Directory 1795 of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1795. He was buried in the Craig family plot in northmost section of Greyfriars Kirkyard. At the time gravestones were only permitted on the perimeter wall of Greyfriars so no stone was permitted (a stone was later added). No record of who attended his funeral has been found but his death was widely reported in the British press typically commenting that the architect of the New Town and nephew of James Thomson has died.
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Stirling's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, general view. It is the small plate between the two large tablets. Stirling's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, detail Plaque to the Stirlings of Garden, Dunblane Cathedral Stirling was born on 11 May 1692Monument to the Stirlings of Garden, Dunblane Cathedral at Garden House near Stirling, the third son of Archibald Stirling, Lord Garden. At 18 years of age he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where, chiefly through the influence of the Earl of Mar, he was nominated in 1711 to be one of Bishop Warner's exhibitioners (or Snell exhibitioner) at Balliol.
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Lord Robertson's house at 9 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh (centre) The Robertson mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard Robertson was born on 5 December 1753 in Edinburgh, the first son of Mary Nisbet and her husband William Robertson. His grandfather at the time of his birth was minister of Greyfriars Kirkyard and the extended family all lived together in Edinburgh. In 1759 his father was appointed Chaplain of Stirling Castle and the family lived there for a short while. In 1762 his father took over the ministry of Greyfriars Kirk and soon after (1762) became Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
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Patrick remarried to Jane Milne.Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Patrick Wilson Patrick had a practice at 2 Queen Street which Robert inherited on his death. Patrick is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, just south of the church, with his wife, Catherine Peddie (1807-1843).
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The grave of Margaret Calderwood, Old Kirkyard, Lasswade Margaret Calderwood (1715 – 1774) was a Scottish diarist just after the Jacobite uprising of 1745. She wrote of her journeys through England to Brussels, but this work was not published until the 19th century.
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Finlay is commemorated on the war memorial in Moonzie Kirkyard in Fife. There is now a memorial stone in the children's play park in the north end of Guardbridge his home village. The village also has a recently added street named after him.
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He is buried in Duddingston Kirkyard in south Edinburgh. The grave lies against the western boundary wall. A second memorial stands in the Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh, east of the eastern path, next to the large obelisk to Christian Isobel Johnstone.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography He died 9 May 1875 at 39 Minto Street, Edinburgh. He is buried with his father in the western extension to Greyfriars Kirkyard but has a separate stone, set high on the Flodden Wall facing his father's monument.
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The village contains Ollaberry Kirk. In the churchyard is a large memorial with Corinthian-like columns, the work of sculptor John Forbes in 1754. Known as Ollaberry Kirkyard Monument, it was designated a Historic Scotland Category B listed monument on 18 October 1977.
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He had collapsed suddenly "with an inflammation" after having returned from a Holy Fair (regional Communion Services) in Leith. He died after a few days illness, calmly assured of a future life. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile.
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Peter Slater 1851, Old College, University of Edinburgh Prof George Dunbar's grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard George Dunbar FRSE (1777–6 December 1851) was a Scottish classical scholar and lexicographer who authored a classical Greek dictionary, and Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh.
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Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1835 He died in Edinburgh on 9 April 1837. He is buried with his parents in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave is marked by a large monument and stands in the centre of the section south of the church.
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He died at Morland Cottage, near the foot of Blackford Hill on the south side of Edinburgh, on 11 October 1846. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies in the western extension against the far west wall.
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The grave of Sir Henry Jardine, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Sir Henry Jardine of Harwood WS FRSE (30 January 1766 – 11 August 1851) was a solicitor, antiquarian and a founder member of the Bannatyne Club in 1823, with his friend Sir Walter Scott.
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His granddaughter Etheldred Spittal married Percival Stacy Waddy. He died at home, 3 Minto StreetEdinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1841-42 in south-east Edinburgh on 25 September 1842. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave lies within the western extension.
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He died on 24 December 1842 at Leamington Spa. His body was returned to Edinburgh and he was buried in a private vault in the now sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard known as the Covenanter's Prison. His wife Elizabeth Carnegy lies with him.
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Muter died at Park Street off Grosvenor SquareThe Gentlemans Magazine May 1841 in London on 23October 1840 at the age of 63 and is buried in the family plot in Nether Kirkyard, St Cyrus, near Montrose, where there is monument with a dedication to him.
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Catford 1975, p. 44. St Giles' forms the north side of Parliament Square with the Law Courts on the south side of the Square. The area immediately south of the church was originally the kirkyard, which stretched downhill to the Cowgate.Marshall 2009, p. 30.
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Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1816-17 He died 2 October 1817. He is buried with his parents and wife, Katherine Inglis (d.1803) in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies west of the church and north of the Adam mausoleum.
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Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet, Pinkie House Portrait by George Jamesone, 1638 The grave of Sir Thomas Hope, Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall (1573–1646) was a Scottish lawyer, and Lord Advocate under Charles I.
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Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1818 In 1795 he was visited by Johann Gottfried Schmeisser. He died in Edinburgh on 19 September 1819 and is buried in the north west section of the western extension to Greyfriars Kirkyard. He never married and had no children.
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John Beugo's grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard. Beugo was born in Edinburgh on 7 May 1759. He was a prosperous reproductive engraver who made prints after the likes of Henry Raeburn, Joshua Reynolds and Alexander Nasmyth. He also made prints after the anatomical works of John Bell.
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Ayrshire and Arran. New Haven & London : Yale University Press. . P.544. Monkwood Grove was once home to 'the father of Scottish botany', James Smith (1759–1848). James is buried in Ayr's Old Kirkyard and this claim to botanical fame is recorded on his gravestone.
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The tomb of James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour, Greyfriars Kirkyard Lord Pitfour suffered from poor health in his later years, and he resigned from the judiciary in 1776. Correspondence between Pitfour's two brothers-in-law, Lord Elibank and General Murray, shortly after Pitfour died describes how "he had in a manner lost his senses". After his death at Gilmerton on 25 June 1777, he was buried in a vault that he had paid to be built two years previously in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. One of several vaults situated in the southern boundary wall, it is described by Buchan as "a plain, even ugly, pitched-roof building".
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Canongate Kirk, seen from Calton Hill, with the churchyard in the foreground, and Salisbury Crags behind The Canongate Kirkyard () stands around Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The churchyard was used for burials from the late 1680s until the mid-20th century. The most celebrated burials at the kirkyard are the economist Adam Smith and the poet Robert Fergusson, but many other notable people were interred in the cemetery. It has been claimed that David Rizzio, the murdered private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots lies here, although it is highly unlikely that an Italian Catholic would be reinterred in a Protestant graveyard 120 years after his death.
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Bryce 1912, p. 18. At the creation of the burial ground in 1562, a gate was installed at the site of the current north gate of the kirkyard. Since the construction of the Kirk, a causewayed path has connected this to the Kirk's north door.Bryce 1912, pp.
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On 4 October 1855, he married Bethia Mary Spens. They had six sons and two daughters. He was succeeded as second baronet by Sir Joseph Fayrer, 2nd Baronet. His daughter Bethia Marion Fayrer (1857-1892) married William Dobrees Herries and is buried in Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
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There he died. He is buried in the family mausoleum at Tongland Kirkyard. His son, Walter Montgomerie Neilson, erected Neilson's Monument to his memory on the hill at Queenshill in 1883. Both in Glasgow and near Kirkcubright, he founded institutions for the education of working men.
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The restoration of the former Old Kirk and the West Kirk began in January 1879.Marshall 2009, p. 127. In 1881, the West Kirk vacated St. Giles'. During the restoration, many human remains were unearthed; these were transported in five large boxes for reinterment in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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He was appointed a member of new High Commission court in 1615. He was responsible for the present procedure of examining witnesses in court. He seems to have been involved in witch trials. He died on 13 April 1628 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
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Rob Roy's Grave.Postcard c.1910-1920 The local kirkyard is the final resting place of Rob Roy; his grave is marked with the appropriately defiant motto 'MacGregor Despite Them'. He lies with the remains of his wife and two sons, the graves marked by three flat stones.
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The grave of Surgeon General George Bidie, Logie Kirkyard Surgeon General George Bidie CIE (3 April 1830 – 19 February 1913) was a British physician who worked in India in the Madras Medical Service. He was also Superintendent of the Government Museum, Chennai from 1872 to 1885.
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He subsequently subscribed the National Covenant, when renewed March the following, in the kirkyard of Greyfriars Kirk, and actively co-operated with the Covenanters in their opposition to King Charles. He was present in Parliament 31 August 1639 and 2 June 1640. cites Acta Parl. Scot., vol.
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The grave of Rev. Thomas Wilkie, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh The Very Rev. Thomas Wilkie (1645-1711) was a Scottish minister who was elected moderator of the Church of Scotland twice: once in 1701 and once in 1704. He was the minister at the Kirk of the Canongate.
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John Balliol surrendered and submitted himself to a protracted abasement. At Kincardine Castle on 2 July he confessed to rebellion and prayed for forgiveness. Five days later in the kirkyard of Stracathro he abandoned the treaty with the French. The final humiliation came at Montrose on 8 July.
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In 1765 he inherited Little Seggie, north-west of Milnathort from an uncle. He lived his final years at St John Street off the Canongate in Edinburgh.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1773 to 1785 He died in Edinburgh on 16 April 1791 and is buried in the Canongate Kirkyard.
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The 1638 painted decorative ceiling. Today Skelmorlie Aisle is in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. Admission is free, although visitors need to obtain the key from the adjoining Largs Museum. Both the kirkyard and museum are open from late May to early September from 2.00pm to 5.00pm.
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McGrew T. 2009. "A Pilgrim's Regress: George John Romanes and the Search for Rational Faith" The Christendom Review 2 (2). He died in Oxford on 23 May 1894. A memorial to Romanes exists in the north west corner of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh on the grave of his parents.
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He died off the coast of Madagascar on 4 June 1825. He was buried at sea but he is memorialised within the family tomb in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. A tomb monument to Adam was also erected in 1827 in Cathedral of Calcutta, now known as St. John’s Church.
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William Adam succumbed to illness in late 1747, dying the following summer. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, where John Adam designed the family mausoleum built in 1753. This was restored by Edinburgh City Council and Historic Scotland in 1997 to mark the 250th anniversary of his death.
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He died unmarried at Melville Castle, near Edinburgh in 1876. He is buried in the simple Dundas Vault in Old Lasswade Kirkyard, together with his ancestors and descendants. His younger brother, Richard Saunders Dundas, was a prominent naval officer. He was succeeded as Viscount Melville by his brother Robert.
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Mary Erskine's grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard Mary Erskine (1629 – 2 June 1707) was a Scottish businesswoman and philanthropist, who donated money to set up the girls' school which is now known as The Mary Erskine School and also the Trades Maiden Hospital (now known as the Trades Maiden Fund).
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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 George IV Bridge 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.
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Bobby is said to have sat by the grave for 14 years. He died in 1872 and a necropsy by Prof Thomas Walley of the Edinburgh Veterinary College concluded he had died from cancer of the jaw.Greyfriars Bobby: The Most Faithful Dog in the World, J Bondeson He was buried just inside the gate of Greyfriars Kirkyard, not far from John Gray's grave. Greyfriars Kirkyard A year later, the English philanthropist Lady Burdett-Coutts was charmed by the story and had a drinking fountain topped with Bobby's statue (commissioned from the sculptor William Brodie) erected at the junction of George IV Bridge and Candlemaker Row (opposite the entrance to the churchyard) to commemorate him.
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The Dundas Vault in old Lasswade Kirkyard, containing the first five Viscounts Melville The simple monument to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, Dundas vault, Old Lasswade Kirkyard Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (14 March 1771 – 10 June 1851) was a British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount. Dundas was the Member of Parliament for Hastings in 1794, Rye in 1796 and Midlothian in 1801. He was also Keeper of the Signet for Scotland from 1800. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1807, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1817, a Knight of the Thistle in 1821, and was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1814.
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St Mary's Bellevue, Edinburgh by Thomas Brown The grave of the architect Thomas Brown, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Thomas Brown (1781– 5 June 1850) was a Scottish architect in the early 19th century based in Edinburgh. He is best known for St. Mary's Church, Bellevue, Edinburgh, usually known as Bellevue Church.
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His Canongate Kirk (1688–1690) is a basilica-plan, with a baroque facade. In 1691 Smith designed the mausoleum of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in Greyfriars Kirkyard. This circular structure is modelled on the Tempietto di San Pietro, designed by Donato Bramante (1444–1514), and illustrated in Palladio's Quattro Libri.
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Memorial to Lewis Grassic Gibbon in Arbuthnott kirkyard Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair, set in the north-east of Scotland in early years of the 20th century.
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His offices were at 7 St Andrew Square from 1868 onwards. This building was demolished in 2014. He died of old age at his home in 1908. He is buried in the family plot in Canongate Kirkyard in the south-east corner of the eastern extension with his parents and siblings.
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In 1857 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being James Grant. In 1848 Glasgow University gave him an honorary doctorate (DD). He died on 6 February 1866 in Duddingston manse. He is buried with his children, Mary, John and James, in Duddingston Kirkyard.
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Mackenzie retired at the Glorious Revolution to Oxford. In London on 9 March 1690 he dined with William Lloyd and John Evelyn, two literary opponents from the past. He died at Westminster on 8 May 1691 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, his mausoleum being designed by James Smith.
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Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820 In 1817 he is listed as Treasurer of Edinburgh Town Council.The Edinburgh Observer 1817 In 1821 he was succeeded in turn by William Arbuthnot. He died in Edinburgh on 11 November 1831, then described as a "banker". He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
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Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1785 He died in Edinburgh on 3 January 1786. He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave lies at the extreme north end near the Trotter mausoleum. Due to restrictions on stones in Greyfriars, a slab was only placed in 1878 (by his grandson Carrick Buchanan).
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These four stones were donated to the Museum of Antiquities (now part of the Museum of Scotland) in Edinburgh in 1870. A further high cross fragment was later found incorporated into the kirkyard wall. This bears similarity with Monifieth 4 and was donated to the Museum of Antiquities in 1928.
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Andrew Geddes The grave of Dr John Thomson, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Dr John Thomson FRS FRSE PRCPE (1765–1846) was a Scottish surgeon and physician, reputed in his time "the most learned physician in Scotland". He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1834 to 1836.
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Robinson (2008):73. He appears to have lived in, or close to, his original Edinburgh lodgings, then known as 4 Park Place or Street on the Meadows. He died there on 18 February 1815 and was buried nearby in Greyfriars Kirkyard. He was outlived by his wife (only known as Mrs Dr Roxburgh).
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He was appointed Physician in Ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1768. In later life he lived at High School Yards on the southern edge of the Old Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1773-74 He died in Edinburgh on 10 November 1786, and was interred at Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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His position filled the place of Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, who had died. His Edinburgh address was at 17 Charlotte Square.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820 He died in Edinburgh on 29 May 1836, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave lies against the original western wall, backing onto the western extension.
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Also buried in the kirkyard is Maxwell's father John Clerk Maxwell of Middlebie and Elma Yerburgh (1864–1946) of the Thwaites Brewery family from Blackburn, who lived at nearby Barwhillanty. Here also is buried Dr David Summers (1947- 2009) Physicist and poet of Napier University, Edinburgh. Dr Summers lived in Parton Row.
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This was closed to burials in 1561 and handed over to the town council in 1566. From the construction of Parliament House in 1639, the former kirkyard was developed and the Square formed. The west front of St Giles' faces the former Midlothian County Buildings across West Parliament Square.Harris 1996, p. 485.
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The grave of Sir James Hall, Greyfriars Kirkyard He married Helen Douglas (d. 1837), daughter of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk and sister of the 5th Earl of Selkirk. They had three daughters and three sons. Hall died at home at 132 George Street in the New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Liberton Tower Liberton House William Little mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard William Little (or Littil) of Liberton (1525-1601) was a 16th-century Scottish merchant and landowner who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1586/87 and 1591/92.List of Lord Provosts: Edinburgh City Chambers He was one of the founders of Edinburgh University.
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The grave of A R Carson, Greyfriars Kirkyard Aglionby Ross Carson FRSE LLD (1780 – 4 November 1850) was an educationalist and author. He served as rector of the High School in Edinburgh from 1820 to 1845. His Latin texts remain in use. In texts he is usually referred to as A. R. Carson.
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The present parish church was rebuilt in 1806 replacing the previous church, the remains of which can be found in the adjacent kirkyard. The older church was dedicated to St Mary and consecrated in 1242 by the Bishop de Bernham. The settlement and parish were called Aberluthnot before being renamed after the church.
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Fergusson also wrote the Poem "Auld Reekie", which he dedicated to his fellow Knights of The Cape. On 2 July 1774 the Cape Club took up a collection to aid Fergusson after the onset of his illness. He died on 17 October 1774, and was buried on 19 October in the Canongate Kirkyard.
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He lived in Blackford, south of Edinburgh. In 1710 he succeeded Sir Patrick Johnston as Lord Provost. He died in office in October 1711 and was replaced by Sir Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie.List of Lord Provosts of Edinburgh: Edinburgh City Chambers He is buried in the Covenanters Prison section of Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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In the 18th century, Mauchline was renowned for clock making – John "Clockie" Brown is buried in the Kirkyard. The industry declined in the 19th century. The production of box-work or Mauchline ware took place from the 1820s until 1933 by the firm of W & A Smith. These boxes were extremely collectable.
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His proposers were John Rotherham, James Gregory and Rev James Finlayson. On the death of his father he acquired estates at Navitie and Charlesfield in Fife. He died on 21 November 1798. He is buried with his wife and children in the south-east corner of Canongate Kirkyard on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
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From around 1830 he served as Chamberlain to the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith Palace. He died in Edinburgh on 18 June 1869. He is buried with other members of the Scott Moncrieff family at the south end of the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard commonly called the Covenanter's Prison.
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In 1805 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice in succession to David Ross, Lord Ankerville. Robertson lived then at 9 Charlotte Square.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1806 He retired in 1826 and died in Edinburgh on 20 November 1835. He is buried in the family mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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After completing a narrative of his relations with the lady, contained in a history of his life from 1821 to 1823,The 'Statement of Facts', 'Supplement to Statement of Facts', 'Additions to Supplement' and 'The Last'. he provided himself with a pistol purchased in Aberdeen, and, going to St Cyrus, shot himself next to his sister Mary's grave in the Auld Nether Kirkyard on 29 September 1823. He was just 38 years of age. After a wild and stormy night, his body was discovered the following day by a herd boy named William Reith, lying in a 'natural position', resting his head and shoulders on the west wall of the kirkyard, with a letter to his brother David by his side.
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10 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh The grave of Alexander James Adie, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born the son of John Adie. He was apprenticed in 1789 to his uncle John Miller. They later went into business together as Miller and Adie, Mathematical Instrument Makers, which continued until 1822. His shop was at 58 Princes Street.
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Nothing now exists of the castle except one fragment of a rubble wall that is integrated into the Kinneddar kirkyard boundary wall.Oram, Moray & Badenoch, p. 122 The ruinous structure still existed in 1734 and was described as being a central tower enclosed by two concentric hexagonal walls which made it unique in Scottish terms.
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The grave of Joshua Henry MacKenzie, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born in 1774 the eldest son of the Edinburgh author Henry Mackenzie and his wife, Penuel Grant. His maternal grandfather was Sir Ludovic Grant. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Dr Joshua Mackenzie. The family lived at Cowgatehead just off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh.
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In 1797 he was living at 15 St Andrew Square.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1797 He died at his house at 28 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh on 30 January 1806. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile with his second wife. The grave lies within the eastern extension, close to the church.
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The church for this parish previously stood in the old kirkyard near the shore to the east. This site on the St Fergus Links is still used as a burial ground. Prior to the change in site of the church the parish was known as Longley and at a still more remote period Inverugie.
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The grave of Sir Harry Munro, Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir Harry Munro, 7th Baronet (c. 1720 – 12 June 1781) was 25th Baron and the 28th chief of the Clan Munro. He was a Scottish soldier and politician. He was loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty and served as a captain in Loudon's Highlanders Regiment 1745-48.
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He died on 21 March 1866 and is buried with his family in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies against the east gable of the church, facing the main entrance. His family estate of Bonhard, north-east of Perth, is still a private home. The current owners occasionally open the gardens for charity.
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In 1779 he received an honorary doctorate (DD) from Edinburgh University. On 17 November 1783 he was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died four weeks later on 17 December 1783, making him the first member to die. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard next to his own church.
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The Eassie stone belongs to the Aberlemno School of Pictish sculpture as extended by Lloyd Laing from Ross Trench Jellicoe's original proposed list. In addition to the Eassie stone, stones in the Aberlemno School include Aberlemno 2 (the Kirkyard Stone), Aberlemno 3, Menmuir 1, Kirriemuir 1, Monifieth 2, Rossie Priory, Glamis 1 and Glamis 2.
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Photo of part of an engraving after Sir George Harvey P.R.S.A. (1806-1876) by William Howison A.R.S.A. (1798-1850), Curlers, 1838, on chine appliqué, published by A. Hill, Edinburgh, 1838 The grave of William Howison, Greyfriars Kirkyard William Howison or Howieson ARSA (1798-1850) was a Scottish engraver of note in the early 19th century.
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He served as Dean of Guild 1619 to 1624.Edinburgh City Council: List of Deans of Guild He died on 24 November 1629. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. His monument stands on the western wall of the original churchyard, on the lower north section close to the half- sunken vault of John Baptist Medina.
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He designed a desk and a bookcase incorporating copies of a portrait medallion of Robert Adam by James Tassie, for the Cabinet Room in Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland. Colin McWilliam is commemorated on a plaque in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. He was the father of the author Candia McWilliam.
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Bayne's mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard John Bayne of Pitcairlie (1620–1681) was a writer to the Signet (lawyer) born in Scotland. Known for his work on important contracts such as those relating to the 1672 renovation of Holyrood Palace, he ran a legal team which is linked to several notable architects and major building projects in Edinburgh.
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Thomas McCrie the younger's grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard Rev Dr Thomas M'Crie (earlier spellings include McCree and Maccrie) DD LLD (7 November 1797-9 May 1875) was a Presbyterian minister and church historian. He was a Scottish Secession minister who joined the Free Church of Scotland and served as the Moderator of the General Assembly to that church 1856/57.
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In later life, and until retiral, he lived with his family at 30 Abercromby Place, facing Queen Street Gardens in Edinburgh’s New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1830-31 He retired in 1833 aged 79. He died on 14 August 1836 at Bangholm Bower House in Trinity, Edinburgh and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the city centre.
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Harry married Anne, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, chief of the Clan Rose. Harry was succeeded by his son Sir Hugh Munro, 8th Baronet of Foulis. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the centre of Edinburgh. The grave lies on the north side of a vault in an obscured location north-west of the Adam mausoleum.
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He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies against the western wall of the original churchyard, backing onto George Heriots School. He was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir John Hall, 5th Baronet, FRS. Another son, Basil Hall, was a noted traveller and writer; his daughter Eliza was mother of Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
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Harriet Siddons (née Murray; 16 April 1783 2 November 1844), sometimes known as Mrs Henry Siddons, was a Scottish actress and theatre manager. John Wood Theatre Royal, Edinburgh 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh The grave of Henry Siddons, Greyfriars Kirkyard Edinburgh referred to her as "Our" Mrs Siddons to distinguish her from her English mother-in-law, Sarah Siddons.
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Lord Avontoun. The grave of Robert Blair, Greyfriars Kirkyard Robert Blair of Avontoun FRSE (1741–1811) was a Scottish advocate and judge who served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1789 to 1806, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1801 to 1808, and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1808 to his death.
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The kirkyard stone predates the Battle of Barry by three centuries and the most widely accepted interpretation is that the stone commemorates the Pictish victory at the historical Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685 AD. The archaeological remains at Kirkbuddo, previously attributed to a Danish camp are now known to have been a temporary Roman marching camp.
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He founded (1715) a successful printing business, and in 1728 was appointed printer to the University of Edinburgh. He acquired the Caledonian Mercury in 1729, and in 1730 was appointed keeper of the Advocates' Library, resigning in 1752. He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The monument was erected in 1801 by his relative, Dr William Ruddiman.
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Memorial or gravestone for Thomas Henderson in Greyfriars Kirkyard A blue plaque is installed on his house at 1 Hillside Crescent. It refers to him as "Thomas J. A. Henderson", similar to middle names wrongly added to Wikipedia around 2007. A larger memorial (naming him "Thomas Henderson") is incorporated in the external wall of the City Observatory.
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Burns's sister, Isabella Burns Begg, is also buried in the Kirkyard, along with other notable figures such as David Cathcart, Lord Alloway. Following restoration work, the Kirk and graveyard were reopened to the public by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond in April 2008. The church itself is a scheduled monument and the churchyard a Category B listed building.
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55 Priscilla McLaren was the president and Elizabeth Pease Nichol was the treasurer.Eliza Wigham , The Scottish Suffragists. Retrieved 30 May 2015 McLaren died in Edinburgh on 5 November 1906, shortly after giving her written support for more suffragettes who had been imprisoned for their militancy. She was buried beside her husband in St Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
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The monument to John Hunter On 12 August 1685 fleeing covenanter John Hunter attempted to escape pursuing dragoons by running up the steep side of the Beef Tub. He failed, was shot dead on the spot, and is buried in Tweedsmuir kirkyard (churchyard). A monument to Hunter stands on the southwest rim of the Beef Tub.
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Epstein R. 1984. The principle of parsimony and some applications in psychology. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 5 119–130 The Romanes grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh As a young man, Romanes was a Christian, and some, including his religious wife, later said that he regained some of that belief during his final illness.'Physicus' [Romanes G.J.] 1878.
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Duncan Ban MacIntyre Memorial, Greyfriars Kirkyard Plaque to Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Roxburgh Close, Edinburgh Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir, anglicized as Duncan Ban MacIntyre (20 March 1724 - 14 May 1812),Calder, George (editor and translator). The Gaelic Songs of Duncan MacIntyre. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1912. was one of the most renowned of Scottish Gaelic poets.
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The Royal Mile runs downhill and terminates at Holyrood Palace. Minor streets (called closes or wynds) lie on either side of the main spine forming a herringbone pattern. The street has several fine public buildings such as St Giles' Cathedral, the City Chambers and the Law Courts. Other places of historical interest nearby are Greyfriars Kirkyard and the Grassmarket.
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Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill (1549-1617) was a Scottish prosecutor, ambassador, and judge. He was involved in the negotiations for the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark. The grave of John Skene, Lord Curriehill, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh He was regent in St Mary's College, St Andrews from 1564-5 and became an advocate in 1575.
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The Hunter's Hill stone belongs to the Aberlemno School of Pictish sculpture as extended by Laing from Ross Trench Jellicoe's original proposed list. In addition to the Glamis manse stone, stones in the Aberlemno School include Aberlemno 2 (the Kirkyard Stone), Aberlemno 3, Menmuir 1, Kirriemuir 1, Monifieth 2, Eassie, Rossie Priory, and the Glamis Manse Stone (Glamis 2).
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Mortsafes in Cluny kirkyard Many people were determined to protect the graves of newly deceased friends and relatives. The rich could afford heavy table tombstones, vaults, mausolea and iron cages around graves. The poor began to place flowers and pebbles on graves to detect disturbances. They dug heather and branches into the soil to make disinterment more difficult.
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James Edward Alexander General Sir James Edward Alexander c.1880 The grave of General Sir James Edward Alexander, Old Logie Kirkyard General Sir James Edward Alexander (16 October 1803 – 2 April 1885) was a Scottish traveller, author and soldier in the British Army. Alexander was the driving force behind the placement of Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment.
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Sir William Newbigging 29 Heriot Row, Edinburgh The grave of William Newbigging, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Sir William Newbigging FRSE FRCSEd FRGS (25 April 1773Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 – 2 October 1852) was a Scottish surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1814 to 1816. He was a keen amateur geographer.
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He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard against the western wall of the original area, north-west of the Adam mausoleum. The enclosure and monument are no longer present, but stood just south of the tablet to Sir James Hall. His house, just east of Greyfriars, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Chambers Street.
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Nonetheless, "'Pet Marjorie' is now carved on her (modern) tombstone in Abbotshall Kirkyard at Kirkcaldy."The Complete..., p. xvii. The monument, erected in 1930, is depicted here: Retrieved 21 February 2012. Marjorie's life and the legend that formed around her writings is analysed in the first chapter of Alexandra Johnson's The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life.
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He married Louisa Melville Wilson (born 1790), daughter of Major James Wilson of the Royal Artillery. They had five daughters and three sons. Their second son, James Alexander Wishart (1822–1855) became a doctor, graduating MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1843 with a thesis on cataract. He is buried in the family grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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McQueen, Page 261 Her daughters Agnes and Isabella are buried next to their mother in the old kirkyard at Alloway. Isabella kept in touch with Ann Park's illegitimate daughter Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns who had been brought up by Jean Armour and had married.Begg, Page 37 None of Robert Burns's letters to Isabella are known to survive.
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The grave of David Aikenhead, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born in Edinburgh in 1566 the son of Helen Ramsey and her husband James Aikenhead, a town burgess. He was descended from the Aikenheads of Lanarkshire. In 1620 he succeeded Alexander Clerk as Provost of Edinburgh. In 1622 Clerk (then known as Alexander Clerk of Stenton) regained office.
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By 1565, all the buildings of the Friary had been removed and their stones carried away for use in the construction of the New Tolbooth and to repair St Giles' and its kirkyard walls.Bryce 1912, p. 30. The kirkyard of St Giles' was, by then, overcrowded and Mary, Queen of Scots had, in 1562, given the grounds of the Friary to the town council to use as a burial ground.Dunlop 1988, p. 74. The west end of St Giles' prior to 19th century alterations. From its foundation in 1598, the congregation of Edinburgh's south-west parish met in the upper storey of the Tolbooth partition in the west end of St Giles' The congregation of Greyfriars can trace its origin to a 1584 edict of the town council to divide Edinburgh into four parishes.
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Mitchell, Anne (1993), The People of Calton Hill, Mercat Press, James Thin, Edinburgh, . He died at Caanan Lodge, in the Morningside district of Edinburgh (now demolished) in December 1858, and was interred in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave lies to the south-west of the church, just to the north- east of the Adam mausoleum. His daughter married Thomas Henderson (1798–1844).
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Kinneddar kirkyard with the raised mound giving the location of the ancient church of Kinneddar Kinneddar Castle in Moray, Scotland was the residence (or Bishop's Palace) of the bishops of Moray from c.1187 and whose first documented incumbent was Bishop Richard (1187-1203). Very little of the structure now remains but the site is protected as a scheduled ancient monument.
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William Wright (1782-??) was a Scottish poet. Born in the Row, Ednam, he was largely paralysed from birth. He was particularly keen on nature poetry, and spent long hours in Ednam kirkyard penning his poems, which include,"To a Robin Redbreast", "To a Thrush" and "To a Wild Flower". He also wrote about events of his time, such as the Napoleonic wars.
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He was received graciously, and the office of royal chaplain was again conferred upon him. A few months after he was struck with apoplexy, and died on 28 December 1715. He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The grave lies amongst the large monuments on the outer walls of the original churchyard, towards the south-west, slightly north-west of the Adam mausoleum.
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History of Glenbervie, G H Kinnear, Montrose, 1895, retrieved 10 July 2017 The population fell from a peak of 1307 in 1796 to 887 in 1895. Many of the villagers had immigrated, especially the young to the nearby cities and towns. The kirkyard in Glenbervie is the final resting place of the great grandparents of the noted Scottish poet Robert Burns.
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Montgomery was created 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein in 1946. Montgomery's mother, Maud, Lady Montgomery, died at New Park in Moville in Inishowen in 1949. She was buried alongside her husband in the 'kirkyard' behind St. Columb's Church, the small Church of Ireland church beside New Park, overlooking Lough Foyle. Montgomery did not attend the funeral, claiming he was "too busy".
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A little Skye Terrier named Bobby is the pet of a Scottish farmer and his wife but the dog loves an old shepherd hired on the farm called Auld Jock. When money grows scarce on the farm, Auld Jock is fired. He travels to Edinburgh, and Bobby follows him. Auld Jock dies in poverty in an inn and is buried in Greyfriar's Kirkyard.
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Plaque, Grassmarket He was sentenced to be hanged at the Grassmarket on 23 April, but was reprieved till 9 May. He was then willing to have taken the test, but a quorum of the Privy Council could not be obtained to reprieve him. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. There is a large monument to John Paton in Fenwick Churchyard.
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Macadam lived at 169 East George Street, (now the site of The Premier Inn Glasgow City Centre George Square). The street was subsequently re-named East George Street as it is known today.Opposite the present George Street car Park and the University of Strathclyde Department of Mathematics and Statistics Building. The house backed onto St. David's "Ramshorn" Kirkyard or churchyard.
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The grave of the Rae family, Greyfriars Kirkyard He lived his final years at Castlehill, the upper section of the Royal Mile.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1790 He died in 1791, and was buried in the tomb of his forefathers in Greyfriars Kirk. His wife, Isabella Cant died the next year and was buried with him. The grave lies mid-way along the eastern boundary wall.
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In 1815, his only son, William Fettes died at the age of 27 of typhoid in Berlin, while on a tour of Europe, . He had been admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1810 five years previously. Without an heir, Fettes was to live on to May 1836, predeceasing his wife by just three weeks. They are buried together in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile.
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Rear of the stone, showing incised symbols The Glamis manse stone belongs to the Aberlemno School of Pictish sculpture as extended by Laing from Ross Trench Jellicoe's original proposed list. In addition to the Glamis manse stone, stones in the Aberlemno School include Aberlemno 2 (the Kirkyard Stone), Aberlemno 3, Menmuir 1, Kirriemuir 1, Monifieth 2, Eassie, Rossie Priory, and Glamis 1 (Hunter's Hill).
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The grave of James L'Amy, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh He was born on 8 July 1772 the son of John Ramsay L'Amy of Dunkenny. His older sister was the Scottish poet Agnes Lyon. He studied Law and qualified as an advocate in 1794. In the 1820s he was living at 27 Northumberland Street next to the "father of phrenology" and fellow-lawyer, George Combe, at 25 Northumberland Street.
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Thain was also a commissioner for the construction of the Lachine Canal. He travelled to Scotland for a visit in 1825, planning to seek medical care and visit his family. He suffered an attack of "brain fever" there and was confined to an asylum in Aberdeen in 1826, where he died six years later. He was unmarried and is buried with his family at Forgue Kirkyard, Aberdeenshire.
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The Grassic Gibbon Centre Memorial to Lewis Grassic Gibbon in Arbuthnott kirkyard Lewis Grassic Gibbon hailed from the area and wrote about life in The Mearns. The Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre is located next to the Village Hall, near the Post Office. Rt Rev George Gleig was born at raised at Arbuthnott. Arbuthnott House, the seat of the Viscount of Arbuthnott, is near the village.
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Low Parks Museum in Hamilton, originally designed by James Smith as the home of David Crawford, secretary to the Duke of Hamilton. Tomb of Sir George Mackenzie in Greyfriars Kirkyard James Smith (c. 1645–1731) was a Scottish architect, who pioneered the Palladian style in Scotland. He was described by Colen Campbell, in his Vitruvius Britannicus (1715–1725), as "the most experienced architect of that kingdom".
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Kirknewton's Main Street has a very enclosed feel. Stretching from the junction with the B7031 to the old kirkyard in the centre of the village, it consists of a collection of one and two storey buildings. The parish church, dating from 1750, was remodelled in the Gothic style in 1872 by Brown & Wardrop.Buildings of Lothian: Colin McWilliam 1978 The manse retains its 1750 architecture.
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The original church was then demolished 1805/6. Some of the more interesting memorials were relocated: notably the tombstone of Lady Yester herself which is now in Greyfriars Kirkyard. In 1822 the original site was built over by a Secessionist Chapel designed by Thomas Brown. This was converted to a Free Church following the Disruption of 1843 and was then known as the Tolbooth Free Church.
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When the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church reunited in 1929, the former United Free Church congregation took the name Grange Church. Happily, the two congregations re-united in 1981 to form Prestongrange Parish Church. There are many interesting and intriguing grave stones in the kirkyard where a number of former ministers and even soldiers from the Battle of Prestonpans are buried.
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Although his assistant John Craig had remained in Edinburgh during these events, Knox, his health failing, had retired to St Andrews. A deputation from Edinburgh recalled him to St Giles' and there he preached his final sermon on 9 November 1572.Lees 1889, pp. 157-158. Knox died later that month and was buried in the kirkyard in the presence of the Regent Morton.
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Brown continued his research after his return to Scotland (covering the period 1790 to 1815) but it was not published during his lifetime. He wrote several drafts of what he intended to be a comprehensive History of North America, but it was never completed and published. He died in Carrington, Midlothian near Edinburgh on 19 February 1834, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh city centre.
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The name is thought to be derived from an early Christian settlement founded by St Ternan. It is claimed that Ternan was a follower of St Ninian. Tradition has it that he established his settlement on the banks of the River Dee on what was later to become the kirkyard of the medieval parish of Banchory-Ternan. The village and parish retained the name until the 1970s.
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The 'Maiden' in the National Museum of Scotland Stone marker in Greyfriars Kirkyard He was executed on 2 June 1581. The method of his execution was the Maiden, an early form of guillotine modelled on the Halifax gibbet. According to tradition, he brought it personally from England, having been "impressed by its clean work", Maxwell, History of the House of Douglas, Vol. I, pp.
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Mylne also built numerous tenement blocks for others. The profits of these projects allowed him to purchase the estates of Balfargie in Fife, and Inveresk, east of Edinburgh, where he died aged 77. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, under the monument which he erected to his uncle. Robert Mylne had eight sons and six daughters by his wife, Elizabeth Meikle, whom he had married in 1661.
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Lyon, pp. 57–8. De Quincey's grave in St. Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh. By his own testimony, De Quincey first used opium in 1804 to relieve his neuralgia; he used it for pleasure, but no more than weekly, through 1812. It was in 1813 that he first commenced daily usage, in response to illness and his grief over the death of Wordsworth's young daughter Catherine.
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Monument erected in 1842 over the grave of Highland Mary in the old West Kirkyard, Greenock Mary lived with her parents, first, near Dunoon on the Cowal Peninsula. In 1768, the family moved to Campbeltown then later, finally, to Greenock. Her three siblings, Robert, Annie and Archibald, were born at Campbeltown. She is said to have spent some time at Lochranza on Arran, living with the Rev.
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Some accounts claim that he simply vanished, however he suddenly collapsed. He was found and brought home, but died soon afterwards. He was buried in his own kirkyard, although local legends claim that the fairies took his body away, and the coffin contains only stones. The huge pine tree that still stands at the top of Doon Hill is said to contain Kirk's imprisoned spirit.
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The grave of Prof John Walker, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Very Rev Prof John Walker DD MD FRSE (1731–1803) was a Scottish minister and natural historian. He was Regius Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783 and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1790.
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Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh The mortsafe was invented around 1816. These were iron or iron-and-stone devices of great weight, in many different designs. Often they were complex heavy iron contraptions of rods and plates, padlocked together - examples have been found close to all Scottish medical schools. A plate was placed over the coffin and rods with heads were pushed through holes in it.
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In the 1830s he is listed as living and working at 227 High Street on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. He died on 20 December 1850 at 8 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the centre of Edinburgh with his widow Jane Scott (1801-1871) and children. The grave lies in the northern half of the graveyard, towards the west side, against the sunken vault.
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Farmer's gable and new tower, from Campbell Street The Kirk at the Esplanade From 1711, John Scott began shipbuilding on the opposite bank of the Westburn, and from 1740 onwards shipyards increasingly encroached on the land between the Kirkyard and the Clyde. Caird & Company took over two shipyard berths close to the church in 1871, and photographs show ships under construction looming high above the kirk.Cairds, Inverclyde Shipbuilding & Engineering, shows a ship being built close to the Schaw Aisle (east wing), see also photo in In 1917 Caird & Co. were taken over by Harland and Wolff, which proposed huge expansion of the shipyard, taking over several properties including the original harbour, the kirk and the kirkyard. They offered generous compensation, including a new site about further west along the coast at the east end of Greenock's Esplanade, and agreed to have the kirk carefully taken down and re-erected.
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Williamson's Edinburgh Directory 1773 He died at Woodhouselee on 12 September 1792. He was an accomplished player on the harpsichord and on the flute, and was an original member of the Musical Society of Edinburgh. He is buried in the family vault in the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard known as the Covenanter's Prison. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler and grandson Patrick Fraser Tytler lie with him.
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Also an outsider in other senses Hurd never joined the RIBA. Hurd was homosexual and had a single lifelong partner from around 1935. Hurd died whilst on holiday in Switzerland, but his body was flown home and his was the last full interment within the otherwise closed-to-burial Canongate Kirkyard. A pencil sketch of Hurd by Antony Wolffe is in the collection of National Galleries of Scotland.
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In December 1779, from the 47th volume, it was retitled the Edinburgh Magazine, or, Weekly Amusement. Although these developments had the effect of splitting the readership in terms of circulation, the aggregate of the sales for both publications remained solid in the region of 3 to 3.5 thousand. Ruddiman's wife predeceased him by five years and they are both buried in Edinburgh's Greyfriars kirkyard. Their son Thomas inherited his father's business.
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Robert Adamson & David Octavius Hill 1808 - 1889. Of Kelso and Edinburgh; Free Church minister and poet Robert Adamson & David Octavius Hill - Rev. Dr Horatius Bonar, 1808 - 1889. Of Kelso and Edinburgh; Free Church minister and poet 10 Palmerston Road, Edinburgh The grave of Horatius Bonar, Canongate Kirkyard Horatius Bonar (19 December 180831 July 1889), a contemporary and acquaintance of Robert Murray M'cheyne was a Scottish churchman and poet.
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1786 grave of Highland Mary, marked by 1842 monument. The Kirkyard was expanded in 1657 and 1721 to provide increased graveyard space, but in 1773 a request for further extension was resisted due to pressure of demand for land in the town. After prolonged litigation, the Inverkip Street cemetery on the south side of the town was opened in 1786. This is the burial place of John Galt.
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Lady Forbes, with whom he made his only lengthy visit to the continent in 1792–3, died in 1802. He died at 39 George Street in Edinburgh on 12 November 1806. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the vault immediately east of MacKenzie's domed tomb on the south side. The vault was built at the height of the graverobbing fears in Edinburgh and demonstrates the design art of "secure burial".
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There were also two daughters, Mary who died in 1879, and Felicite.John MacGregor (died 1847) erected a tombstone in Greyfrairs Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The plaque commemorates his "stepson General John A. Paul MacGregor who died in London 5th March 1868", along with Drummond Mary, the five sons and Mary, the daughter (see the entry for John at Find a Grave with images of the stones: "John Macgregor". Find a Grave.
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 31 (1841) In 1852 he is listed as a director of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy on Lothian Road in Edinburgh.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1852 He died on 15 January 1854 in Edinburgh and is buried with his wife and family in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave stands at the top end of the western extension facing the eastern gate into George Heriot's School.
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Cullen, p.13 The majority of the surviving sections are protected as scheduled monuments: the Flodden Wall at Granny's Green; the Flodden and Telfer Walls at the Vennel and Heriot Place; and the Flodden Wall at Drummond Place and Pleasance. The walling in Tweeddale Court and the sections within Greyfriars Kirkyard are protected as listed buildings. The walls also form part of the Edinburgh Old Town World Heritage Site.
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Skelton's sentence was later commuted to transportation for life on account of his previous good character. On 22 April, McIntosh, Sutherland and MacDonald were hanged in Stamp Office Close. McIntosh's body was sent for anatomical dissection, while Sutherland and MacDonald were buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. According to historian Andrew Ralston, the Tron riot case was used to send a strong message about juvenile delinquency, and to deter other would-be offenders.
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He had a daughter, Margaret, who married in 1662, John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany, a descendant of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (1517–1575). According to other sources, he was/is not buried in St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh. It was not a burial Church but it does contain memorials of other celebrated Scots. In the old kirkyard, now a carpark, were buried John Knox and William Forbes.
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Yerburgh fell seriously ill in November 1946 and died at Barwhillanty on 6 December, aged 82; she was buried at Parton kirkyard. Her gravestone bears the inscription: "In loving memory of Elma Amy Yerburgh, born 30th July 1864, died 6th December 1946. 'And the spirit shall return unto God who gave it'." In her will, she made legacies to several charities, continuing the benevolence she had demonstrated all her life.
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The kirkyard contains many fine gravestones, including the remains of the Caddell family of Cockenzie. It is the burial place of Colonel James Gardiner who died at the Battle of Prestonpans (1745), which took place in the shadow of Tranent Parish Church and within sight of his own home at Bankton House. The yard also contains one of the oldest lectern-type doocots (dovecote) in Scotland, dated 1587.
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James Heath after Henry Raeburn The grave of Alexander Monro, Greyfriars Kirkyard Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn (22 May 1733 – 2 October 1817) was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. To distinguish him as the second of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as secundus. His students included the naval physician and abolitionist Thomas Trotter. Munro was from the distinguished Monro of Auchenbowie family.
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The grave of William Coulter, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born in Edinburgh in 1754. He had a shop and house at the head of Jacksons Close on the Royal Mile (now 217 High Street).Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1824 In 1780 he commissioned the building of Morningside Lodge (later renamed Falcon Hall) in the Morningside district. It stood on 7.3 hectares of ground between Canaan Lane and Newbattle Terrace.
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The cool, objective account in his report of the Cambuslang Wark remains the prime historical source for that event. He kept a detailed "Journal and Register of the Weather..." for each day over 29 years, with remarks on weather and events throughout Britain and the world. This Journal is still quoted in modern histories of the weather. He is buried in the Old Parish Church kirkyard, just inside the gate.
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The grave of General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell, Greyfriars Kirkyard Duncan Campbell of Lochnell (1763-1837) General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell (29 June 1763 – 9 April 1837) was a Scottish soldier and Whig politician from Argyll. An officer in the Duke of Argyll's regiment of the British Army, he sat in the House of Commons for nine years in the interest of George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll.
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Aberlemno II, found in Aberlemno kirkyard, is a shaped cross-slab, bearing Pictish symbols as well as Christian symbols in relief, defining it as a Class II stone. The stone, carved from Old Red Sandstone, stands tall, wide at the base, tapering to wide at the top, and is thick. The west face is inscribed with a quadrilobate Celtic Cross. The cross bears several styles of Celtic pattern designs.
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His dogmatic and fearless attitude in controversy earned for him the nickname Pope Gib. He died on 14 June 1788 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh on 18 June.Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Caledonian Society of Scotland The grave lies on the south-facing section of the western wall within the original graveyard. He is buried with his wife Emilia MacGeorge and his daughters.
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The grave of George Heriot (d.1610) Greyfriars Kirkyard He was the son of the goldsmith George Heriot, who had moved to Edinburgh around the start of the sixteenth century, and Christian Kyle, an Edinburgh native.Bourne, p. 262 Heriot was a member of an established Haddingtonshire family; his grandfather, John Heriot, had been given four hundred acres of land at TrabournAlternately Traburn or Trabroun; a hamlet in the parish of Gladsmuir.
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Set in Scotland in 1860, the film tells the story of a rough collie named Lassie whose master, Jock Gray, is killed by robbers in Edinburgh. After his death, the dog keeps a constant vigil beside her master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, which is in violation of the local dog laws. In the original novel, the title dog was a Skye Terrier named Bobby and his owner dies from pneumonia.
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Also a keen musician he was patron to the Edinburgh violinist, Matthew Hardie. In 1820 he purchased rights to work coal in southern Edinburgh around the Drum Estate, later to become the Seafield Mine. He died at St Andrew Square following a brief illness on 26 February 1832 a few days after his 81st birthday. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh in the section known as the Covenanters Prison.
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The grave of Charles Alston, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Charles Alston (1683 – 22 November 1760) was a Scottish botanist. Alston was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and was apparently raised by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton. In 1715 he went to Leyden to study under the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave. On his return to Scotland he became lecturer in materia medica and botany at Edinburgh and also superintendent of the botanical gardens.
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Monifieth 2, front face The Monifieth Sculptured Stones are a series of five class II and III standing Pictish stones from the early Medieval period found in or around St Regulus' church in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland. Uncovered during the demolition of a pre-Reformation church and its kirkyard wall in the 19th and 20th centuries, the stones are now housed in the collection of the Museum of Scotland.
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The grave of Thomas Meik, Duddingston Kirkyard In 1868, he entered into partnership with William David Nisbet (1837-1897) in Sunderland and Edinburgh. Commissions included a rail freight link, the Hylton, Southwick and Monkwearmouth Railway, transporting coal from collieries sited along the line to the nearby port at Sunderland. The railway was subsequently acquired by the North Eastern Railway. However, later railway designs were to prove more successful for Meik.
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Joseph Black's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh Black was a member of The Poker Club. He was 1st cousin, great friend and colleague to Adam Ferguson FRSE who married his niece Katherine Burnett in 1767, and associated with David Hume, Adam Smith, and the literati of the Scottish Enlightenment. He was also close to pioneering geologist James Hutton.Records of the Clan and Name of Ferguson 1895 p.
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138 note 1 accessed 22 Dec 2018 In 1773 he is listed as living on College Wynd on the south side of the Old Town.Edinburgh Post Office directory 1773 Black never married. He died peacefully at his home in Edinburgh in 1799 at the age of 71 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The large monument lies in the sealed section to the south-west known as the Covenanter's Prison.
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The remnant grave of Rev Prof John Hill, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born in St Andrews on 27 April 1747 the son of Elizabeth and the Rev John Hill (died 1764). His mother died at or soon after his birth. His father remarried and had more children, including George Hill. He attended St Andrews Grammar School then the University of St Andrews where he graduated MA around 1767.
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Burial vault of William Fergusson in St. Andrews Kirkyard at West Linton He died in London after an exhausting illness, of Bright's disease, on 10 February 1877, and was buried at West Linton, Peeblesshire, where his wife had been buried in 1860. A portrait of Fergusson by Lehmann, painted by subscription, was presented to the London College of Surgeons in 1874, and a replica is in the Edinburgh College of Surgeons.
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By the contract of marriage, Mary Erskine inherited most of what belonged to her husband. It seems that this was not a large sum of money, but she used the money to set up a private bank, and built up a considerable fortune. She died on 2 June 1707 and was buried two days later in Greyfriars Kirkyard at the end of the section known as the Covenanters' Prison.
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Gordon served at the Battle of Louisbourg in June 1758 and at the Capture of Quebec in September 1759 during the Seven Years' War. He went on to be commanding officer of the second-rate HMS Blenheim in July 1761. Promoted to Commodore, he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in April 1762. He was promoted to Rear Admiral of the White and is buried at St Mary's Kirkyard in Banff.
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The grave of Robert Hurd, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Hurd was of Anglo-Scottish parentage, the son of Sir Percy Angler Hurd MP and Hannah Swan Cox. He suffered from polio in early life and walked his whole life with a limp. He was educated at Marlborough College and then the LCC Central School of Arts. Thereafter he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge becoming a close friend of Raymond McGrath and Mansfield Forbes.
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Balfour's story is retold by writer Daniel Defoe in his 1724 Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain as part of the description of the town of Inverkeithing. Defoe asserts that the tragical story had been much talked about in England at the time. Balfour died, without issue, in 1757 and was buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The attainder was reversed in 1869 in favour of Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh.
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The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland. The North Berwick witch trials were the trials in 1590 of a number of people from East Lothian, Scotland, accused of witchcraft in the St Andrew's Auld Kirk in North Berwick. They ran for two years and implicated over seventy people. These included Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, on charges of high treason.
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He also succeeded in giving the Scottish episcopalians a surer standing in Edinburgh. Archibald Alison was brought to the city at his suggestion, and in Alison's works there is a funeral sermon to his memory. The grave of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Greyfriars Kirkyard Forbes declined invitations to stand for parliament. He was a member of Samuel Johnson's literary dining club, and he is mentioned in James Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides.
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John Mylne Monument in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The text reads ...Aetatis Suae 56 because he died at age 56 In architecture the term "grotesque" means a carved stone figure. Grotesques are often confused with gargoyles, but the distinction is that gargoyles are figures that contain a water spout through the mouth, while grotesques do not. Without a water spout, this type of sculpture is also known as a chimera when it depicts fantastical creatures.
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St Giles Kirkyard, Edinburgh, where prisoners were held after the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679 Lauderdale attempted a more conciliatory policy, issuing Letters of Indulgence in 1669, 1672 and 1679. These allowed evicted ministers to return to their parishes, if they would avoid political dissent. One-hundred and fifty refused to accept the offer and some episcopalians were alienated by the compromise. The failure to reach an accommodation led to a return to severity.
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Mercat Cross on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Edinburgh's Mercat Cross (then located on the High Street); the second man, after the Duke of Argyll, to be executed for high treason after the Restoration of 1660. Martyrs' Monument (inscription). The central section mentions Guthrie's head which was put on public display at the Nether Bow port. Martyrs' Monument, Greyfriars Kirkyard Site of the Netherbow Port on The Royal Mile where Guthrie's skull remained for 28 years.
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In 1706 he was knighted, one of the last batch of Scottish knights to be created before the Acts of Union 1707. Medina died in Edinburgh on 5 October 1710. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the centre of the city.Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 The grave is a solid enclosed vault on the east side, now appearing half- sunken, adjacent to the steps leading to the northern section.
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As Lord Advocate he was the minister responsible for the persecuting policy of Charles II in Scotland against the Presbyterian Covenanters. After the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679 Mackenzie imprisoned 1,200 Covenanters in a field next to Greyfriars Kirkyard.The field was later incorporated into Greyfriars Kirkyard and that section is known as the "Covenanters' Prison" Some were executed, and hundreds died of maltreatment. His treatment of Covenanters gained him the nickname "Bluidy Mackenzie".
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Milne, p561 He was appointed Lord Justice Clerk on 1 June 1799, in place of Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield, holding office until his death. At this time he was living at 10 St John Street off the Canongate in Edinburgh.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1799 He was created a baronet on 27 June 1804. He died at his country residence, Eskgrove in Inveresk on 23 October the same year, and was interred in Inveresk Kirkyard.
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The Carstares grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born at Glasgow in 1692, the youngest son of William Dunlop, the elder, and Sarah Carstares. His brother, Alexander Dunlop, was also a scholar. The early death of his father threw on his mother the chief charge of his education. After his philosophical course at Edinburgh he studied both law and divinity under the superintendence of Principal Carstares, who was married to his mother's sister.
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Riddell was called to become minister of Wemyss on 28 September 1691. His subsequently was translated to Kirkcaldy on 20 May 1697. His final charge was in Trinity College Kirk in Edinburgh in 1702 which was later demolished to make way for Waverley Station. He died in 1708 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard with his great-great-grandson, the advocate, antiquarian and peerage lawyer John Riddell being the family's representative at the funeral.
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Dalmally Memorial by John Thomas Rochead He died in Edinburgh on 14 May 1812. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. A memorial was erected to his memory several years later, having been erected by friends and well-wishers of the man who had gained fame during his lifetime as Donnchadh Bàn nan Òrain or "Fair Duncan of the Songs". The monument is poorly repaired in cement, losing much of its original detail.
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Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 Cadell's wealth enabled him to acquire considerable land and personal property, including Ratho House, in Midlothian. He died at the family home in Cockenzie on 20 January 1860 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh.Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 The grave stands at the head of one of the western lines in the western extension.
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As Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1643, he maintained the king's temporising policy. In 1645 Hope was appointed one of the Commissioners for managing the Exchequer, but died the next year. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Caledonian Society of Scotland The grave lies in the north-west section of the original graveyard, against the west wall.
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His works for the stage include the mock operas Pyramus and Thisbe (1745) and The Dragon of Wantley (opera) (1734), which ran for 69 nights, a record for the time, surpassing The Beggar's Opera. He was based for a time in Dublin and later in Edinburgh, where he died. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile. The grave lies to the north-east of the church behind the Fettes vault.
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Udny Castle, near Udny Green Udny Green is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, immediately southwest of Pitmedden. It is part of the parish of Udny along with another small settlement, Udny Station. Udny Parish Church is located beside the village green with the old kirkyard and Udny Mort House on the opposite side. On 22 September 1943, the Royal Engineers were called out to Udny Castle to investigate reports of an unexploded bomb.
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He continued to hold the post of an ordinary lord of session until his death at Morningside, near Edinburgh, on 22 July 1793. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard on 24 July, ‘one and a half double paces north of the corner of Henderson's tomb,’ but there is no stone to mark the exact spot. Henderson's tomb is a cubic style monument west of the church and north of the large Adam mausoleum.
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The grave of Barbara and Mary Walker, Greyfriars Kirkyard The original construction was paid for by Barbara and Mary Walker, spinster sisters, providing funds for this purpose from 1873. The cathedral is built on their garden and the land was also part of the gift. They owned the surrounding Drumsheugh Estate and lived in Easter Coates House, which still survives to the north of the cathedral. They were the granddaughters of Rev.
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Pinkie House General Sir Archibald Hope's Grave, Inveresk Parish Kirkyard Sir Archibald Hope was born in 1735, the only surviving son of Archibald Hope and Catherine Todd, eldest daughter of Hugh Todd. Sir Archibald's father was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet. Sir Thomas was an early promoter of agriculture in Scotland. One of his more ambitious projects was the draining and cultivating of a marshy piece of land south of Edinburgh.
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The area around Ettrick has several literary connections. The poet James Hogg (1770–1835), known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", was born at a farm within Ettrick parish, near Ettrick Hall, and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard. "Laverlaw", the fictional estate of Sandy Arbuthnot, Lord Clanroyden, in the works of John Buchan, is set near Ettrick. Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour in Kidnapped hails from the fictitious village of "Essendean" in Ettrick Forest.
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General Sir Archibald Hope's Grave, Inveresk Parish Kirkyard In 1938, Hope married Ruth Chamberlain Davis, the daughter of Carl R. Davis of Fryern, Storrington, Sussex. The couple had two sons: Sir John Carl Alexander Hope, 18th Baronet (1939–2007) and Charles Archibald Hope (born 1945). Hope's mother, Lady Hope, was appointed an OBE in 1920, and served as a Justice of the Peace for Midlothian. Lady Hope made her home at Pinkie House.
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The churchyard of Vepriai, Lithuania In Christian countries a churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language and in Scottish English this can also be known as a kirkyard. While churchyards can be any patch of land on church grounds, historically, they were often used as graveyards (burial places). CHURCHYARD ADJACENT TO St.MARY'S FORANE CHURCH, KORATTY.
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His Canongate Kirk (1688–90) is a basilica-plan, with a baroque facade. In 1691 Smith designed the mausoleum of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in Greyfriars Kirkyard, a circular structure modelled on the Tempietto di San Pietro, designed by Donato Bramante (1444–1514).J. Gifford, William Adam 1689–1748 (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing/RIAS, 1989), , pp. 62–7. Hamilton Palace (1695) was fronted by giant Corinthian columns, and a pedimented entrance, although was otherwise restrained.
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He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1838. He lived with his wife and family at 29 Heriot Row, in a large Georgian townhouse in the Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1851-52 He died on aged 79 on 2 October 1852 at 29 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh in the western extension close to the grave of his colleague Dr John Gordon.
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Mackenzie's 1776 marriage to Penuel Grant made him an uncle by marriage to Lewis Grant-Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Seafield. daughter of Sir Ludovic Grant, His eldest son, Joshua Henry Mackenzie (1777–1851) was a senator of the College of Justice known as Lord MacKenzie, buried with his father in Greyfriars Kirkyard."Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland", The Grampian Society, 1871. Two other sons, Robert and William, worked for the East India Company.
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The village kirk, built in 1655, is dedicated to Saint Serf, and may be built on the site of an early church founded by him. The church dates from The Killing Time, when the rebel Covenanters were persecuted for their faith, and was a centre of Covenanter activity. John M'Millan, the controversial preacher and first post-Revolution minister of the United Societies, is buried in the kirkyard. The kirk is Category A listed.
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The Earls of Cromartie, Their Kindred, Country and Correspondence. Vol. 1. p. cclvi. Edinburgh. He spent the rest of his life on the estate which he greatly improved, planting thousands of trees, and building a new mansion, Tarbat House. John Mackenzie died in Edinburgh on 2 April 1789 following a year of illness, without descendants and was buried at the Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The grave lies immediately to the right (east) upon entering the churchyard.
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Monboddo rode to London on horseback each year and visited Hampton Court as well as other intellectuals of the era; the King himself was fond of Monboddo's colourful discussions. Monboddo died in Edinburgh on 26 May 1799 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh along with his daughter Elizabeth where they have unmarked graves in the burial enclosure of Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies (within the non-public section known as the Covenanters Prison).
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So many poor beggars arrived in Edinburgh in search of relief in December 1696 that the town council had to erect a "refugee camp" in Greyfriars kirkyard to house all of them. Other towns reacted by enforcing severe punishments for beggars.K. J. Cullen, Famine in Scotland: The “Ill Years” of the 1690s (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), , p. 160. The system of the Old Scottish Poor Law was overwhelmed by the scale of the crisis.
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The grave of Archibald Tod, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born in Edinburgh in 1584. His Edinburgh address is unknown but was somewhere on the upper section of the Royal Mile. Given the small population of Edinburgh, rarity of the name, and political connection, it is highly likely that he was the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Tod, four times Provost of Edinburgh in the 15th century. He joined Edinburgh's town council in 1622.
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The Fraser Tytler family vault, Greyfriars Kirkyard The son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, he was born in a house on George Street in Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1790 He was named after his paternal uncle, Col Patrick Tytler. He was educated at the Edinburgh High School. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh in 1813; in 1816 he became King's counsel in the Exchequer, and practised as an advocate until 1832.
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In 1530, in recognition of the shift in population, a chapel was built at Newmilns. Loudoun Kirk remained the parish church until at least the 17th century, at which time the chapel in Newmilns was upgraded to parochial status. Loudoun Kirk and its kirkyard continued in use for occasional church services, but more particularly as the last resting-place of generations of the parishioners of Loudoun. The building was repaired in 1898 by the Third Marquis of Bute.
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The monument was not built for Calderwood but the design was used in 1992 to create a monument to Robert Adam in Edinburgh.The drawings of Robert and James Adam, retrieved 12 January 2015 Calderwood's diaries were published more widely in 1884; previously they had only been circulated via the Maitland Club in 1842. She is buried in the old Kirkyard at Lasswade with her husband, in the plot of her father-in-law, Sir William Calderwood, Lord Polton.
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The houses on the southern side of the river in Lasswade The Old Kirkyard, Lasswade Lasswade is a village and civil parish in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River North Esk, nine miles (14.5 kilometres) south of Edinburgh city centre, contiguous with Bonnyrigg and between Dalkeith to the east and Loanhead to the west. Melville Castle lies to the north east. The Gaelic form is Leas Bhaid, meaning the "clump at the fort." Lasswade lies within the Edinburgh Green Belt.
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The female had advanced osteoarthritis possibly died of tuberculosis. The remains of a fort near Kirkbuddo, formerly known as 'Norway Dykes', from where the Danish army are supposed to have marched is now recognised to be of Roman origin. Boece attributed Pictish sculptured stones found throughout Angus and the surrounding area to the Danish invasions. The battle depicted on the reverse of the Aberlemno kirkyard stone was cited by tradition as a depiction of the Battle of Barry.
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John Meikle was an eminent bell maker and tuner in 17th century Edinburgh. The old kirkyard contains many interesting gravestones and, under the east wing, a burial vault which contains 22 members of the Ker family, six of them Dukes of Roxburghe. The church is embellished with some wonderful stained glass windows including the Priest's Door, built at the old priest's doorway. Bowden has been blessed with education since just after the Scottish Reformation in 1590.
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The entrance to the kirkyard from Duddingston village is notable for its gatehouse, built as a lookout point to deter "bodysnatchers" in the early 19th century. The Edinburgh bodysnatchers, known as "resurrectionists," stole recently buried corpses to sell to anatomists, and, as in the notorious case of Burke and Hare, sometimes also resorted to murder. Given its proximity to central Edinburgh, Duddingston has long been a favourite location for many of the city’s artists and professionals.
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Woodwrae castle was located approximately north of Aberlemno, Angus. This close proximity, and the similarity with the Class II slabs at Aberlemno has long been noted and it has been suggested that the stone originated there. Historian Ross Trench-Jellicoe has postulated, based on similarity of design and execution, an Aberlemno School of Pictish Sculpture, originating from Iona. Stones in the Aberlemno School include Aberlemno 2 (the Kirkyard Stone), Aberlemno 3, Menmuir 1, Kirriemuir 1 and Monifieth 2.
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283-5 but doubt has been cast on this. It was actually ordered to be made by Edinburgh's Town Council in 1564, Maxwell, H Edinburgh, A Historical Study, Williams and Norgate (1916), p.299 David Hume of Godscroft appears to have initiated the Morton legend in his History of the House of Douglas (1644). His corpse remained on the scaffold for the following day, until it was taken for burial in an unmarked grave at Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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The grave of Dr William Wright, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh William Wright became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1778. He was a member in numerous societies, among them the Linnean Society of London of which he became associate member in 1807; the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1808, of which he was a founding member; the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, over which he presided in 1801.Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 1. p.
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He married first Robina Lockhart. Issue- Robina born 21 Jun 1731 in Canongate who married in Edinburgh on 6 Jan 1754 to Alexander Birnie, of Bromhill, b 1708 d before 1770 He married secondly in Canongate, Edinburgh on 3 Oct 1741 to Bethia, b 1706 daughter of John Birnie, of Broomhill. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, immediately east of the church. The tree genus Alstonia is named after him.
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Abernethy's grave (grey granite in foreground) For most of Abernethy's married life he had been away at sea. In 1854 his wife Barbara died, aged 44, with her husband at her side, and Abernethy returned to live in Peterhead. In 1857 he married Rebecca Young but he was only to live for another three years. He died of "ulcersation of the stomach" on 13 April 1860 and his wife erected a gravestone in Peterhead Old Kirkyard.
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The grave of James Spittal, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was the son of James Spittal senior as his name appears as James Spittal Jr in some documents.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1833-34 He was married twice: firstly to Marion Brown (1772-1824) and secondly to Lady Mary Wightman Ker Spittal (1799-1862), thirty years his junior. Children of the first marriage included James Spittal (1797-1844). Joseph Mack Spittal, Dr Robert Spittal FRSE ( d.1852). Helen (1800-1812).
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The formation and subsequent ascendancy of the Covenanters led to the Bishops%27 Wars, the first conflict of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In 1650, as troops of Oliver Cromwell approached Edinburgh, all able-bodied men of the town were ordered to assemble in the kirkyard. Cromwell took the city after the defeat of the Covenanters at Dunbar and, between 1650 and 1653, Cromwell's troops occupied the church as a cavalry barracks and caused significant damage.Steele 1993, p. 6.
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In 1660, General Monck announced in Greyfriars his intention to march south in support of the Restoration. After the Restoration, episcopacy was re-established in the Church of Scotland: this led to a new period of rebellion for the Covenanters. Robert Traill, the covenanting minister of Greyfriars, was forced into exile and Covenanters were imprisoned in a field adjoining the kirkyard after the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679. After the Glorious Revolution, Presbyterian polity was re-established in the Church of Scotland.
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This was done under the supervision of the architect James Miller. A new tower was built to Miller's design, and the church was reoriented, so that the Cartsburn Aisle and the main entrance, which had originally faced west, now faced north-east. The kirkyard had been in use as a cemetery from 1592 until it closed in 1857. Remains of the burials were re-interred in a mass grave in Greenock's central Cemetery, save for the grave of Mary Campbell (Highland Mary).
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In the Vennel the last remaining bastion of the town walls survives. The Flodden Tower, as it is sometimes known, comprises two remaining walls with a total length of , pierced by crosslet gunloops and a 19th-century window. Sections of the Flodden Wall can be seen within Greyfriars Kirkyard, adorned with 16th and 17th century tombstones. At the junction of Forrest Road and Bristo Street a line of cobbles and a narrow gap in the later buildings mark the line of the wall.
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One of the most famous is that erected at Greyfriars Kirkyard in 1707, commemorating 18,000 martyrs killed from 1661 to 1680. In 1721 and 1722, Robert Wodrow published The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, detailing the persecution of the Covenanter movement from 1660 to 1690. This work would be brought forward again when elements in the Church of Scotland felt it to be suffering state interference, as at the Disruption of 1843.Wodrow.
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At the end of his life he is listed as living at 4 Argyll Square with his son James Christison, advocate.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1816-17 Argyll Square was demolished in the mid 19th century to build the Royal Scottish Museum. He died in Edinburgh on 25 June 1820 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the city centre. He is buried in the plot of Professor George Dunbar at the north-west section of the western extension.
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John Row On the Main Street of Carnock lies a Parish church which was built in 1840, though in the nearby kirkyard lies the remains of the original 12th- century church which was rebuilt in 1602. Nextdoor to the church is Carnock Primary School, this school serves both Carnock and Gowkhall. The school was built in 1864 with an extension added in 1912 and another in 2007. The main building consists of 4 classrooms and a medway hut used for various purposes.
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He returned to Edinburgh to become, in 1676, the private secretary to Sir James Dick. Based partly on this experience he became one of Scotland's most famed accountants of his time, and was appointed chief accountant to the Bank of Scotland when it was founded in 1695. George Watson is buried in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirkyard, and although the precise location of his remains is unknown, there is a memorial plaque in a wall in the north-west of the graveyard.
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The grave of John Frederick Lampe, Canongate Kirkyard He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses. Like Arne, Lampe wrote operatic works in English in defiance of the vogue for Italian opera popularised by George Frideric Handel and Nicola Porpora. Lampe, along with Henry Carey and J. S. Smith, founded the short- lived English Opera Project. He became a friend of Charles Wesley, and wrote several tunes to accompany Wesley's hymns.
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Kirk of St Nicholas, one of Scotland's largest parish churches and is subdivided into East and West churches. The large kirkyard of the Kirk of St Nicholas is separated from Union Street by a 147 ft (45 m) long Ionic façade. The divided church within, with a central tower and spire, forms one continuous building 220 ft (67 m) in length. The West Church was built in 1755, by James Gibbs, and the East Church was built in 1837 by Archibald Simpson.
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Crole then served as District Commissioner at Kosti, White Nile Province until 1934, then Deputy Governor, Ed Dueim, White Nile Province, and District Commissioner at Nyala, Darfur in 1936. His final posting in 1937 was as Deputy Governor of El Fasher, where he remained until leaving the service in 1944. After leaving the Sudan Political Service he worked as a schoolmaster. Crole died in Aberdeen on 31 March 1965, and is buried in the family plot at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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The church building is open on some afternoons in the summer. The large Kirkyard surrounding the building has a fine collection of monuments and stones dating from the late 16th century onwards and an unusual ornamented morthouse is present, once used to frustrate the activities of bodysnatchers. Other historic buildings in Crail include the doo'cot (Scots for dovecot) of the town's otherwise vanished Franciscan Friary. Crail once had a royal castle above the harbour (perhaps this was the site of the 'fort').
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Produced by The Bridewell Theatre Company and City of the Dead Walking Tours, Greyfriars Twisted Tales premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2008. Written by The Martians and with supporting roles from Derek Elsby and Marianne Sellars, it ran through a brief history of Greyfriars Kirkyard, a graveyard in central Edinburgh. It received positive reviews from The Scotsman, OnstageScotland and Three Weeks. Following an appearance on 'Mervyn Stutter's Pick Of The Fringe' they were presented the 'Spirit Of The Fringe' award.
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After his second term of office he was succeeded by Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall in 1654.History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time in 9 Books: Book 3 p.227: Civil Government He died on 9 February 1656 aged 71 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave is largely illegible but lies between the tomb of William Chalmers and the tomb of John Byres of Coites (Coates), behind the sunken vault of John Baptist Medina.
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Low Coylton Kirkyard, burial place of Nelly's parents. He stated that she had a sweet voice and was wont to sing songs as she worked in the fields.Scotland's Culture 2012-02-06 Nelly married William Bone, coachman to the Laird of Newark. After the move from Millmannoch Mill, Nelly lived in the old hamlet of Percluan or Purclewan, at the mill there and may have also met Robert Burns both there and at Purclewan's smithy where Henry McCandlish, known as Henry Candlish, was the blacksmith.
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Robert Burns was a close friend of Dr James McCandlish, or Candlish, the blacksmith's son and they had been classmates.Dougall, Page 61 Jean, the Sister of James Smith of Mauchline, Burns's close friend, married James Candlish. A parish record at St. Quivox in Ayrshire states that a William Kilpatrick Bone was born to William Bone and his wife Helen Kilpatrick Bone on 12 May 1798.Hunter, Pages 239 Nelly had a brother, William, who erected her parent's tombstone in the old Low Coylton Kirkyard.
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In her younger years she was often seen at the Ritz Hotel in London, dining with the likes of Cynthia Asquith, Osbert Sitwell, Gilbert Russell and Maud Nelke. Mary Abbott describes her as a "notorious 'bolter'", while Barbara Cartland called her "the most beautiful woman I had ever seen." She died on 3 September 1960 aged 64 and is buried at the Traquair Kirkyard in Traquair, Scotland.Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line].
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Porteous's grave The final resting place of John Porteous in Greyfriars Kirkyard had for more than two hundred years been marked by a small square stone engraved with the single letter "P" and the date 1736. More recently, this has been replaced with a headstone of Craigleith stone, bearing the inscription "John Porteous, a captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, murdered September 7, 1736. All Passion Spent, 1973." The spot where Porteous died in the Grassmarket is today marked by a memorial plate.
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Dugald Stewart Monument, Edinburgh The tomb of Dugald Stewart, Canongate Kirkyard In 1806 Stewart received in lieu of a pension the nominal office of the writership of the Edinburgh Gazette, with a salary of £300. When he ceased lecturing during the session of 1809–1810, his place was taken, at his own request, by Thomas Brown, who in 1810 was appointed conjoint professor. On the death of Brown in 1820 Stewart retired altogether from the professorship. His successor was John Wilson, known as "Christopher North".
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Bronze plaques are mounted on the column. The fountain was originally furnished with two bronze drinking cups which were attached to the column by a chain. The supply of water to the fountain was discontinued in 1957, and the monument suffered from neglect until it was restored in 1985. The memorial was sited at the southern end of George IV Bridge, just past its junction Chambers Street and close to the junction with Candlemaker Row, near the Greyfriars Kirkyard and the National Museum of Scotland.
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The kirkyard is on a rise and affords good views over the rooftops of the village, and of the houses and cottages on the north side of the green. Further east along Main Street there is a minor road heading south off Main Street. This residential street turns sharply to the right and rejoins Main Street at the very western edge of the village. The houses on the street offer views over Largo Bay and across The Firth of Forth to Edinburgh and East Lothian.
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Schofield, p.160 The Flodden Wall at the corner of Drummond Street and the Pleasance Four sections of the Flodden Wall survive: to the north and south of the Grassmarket; in Greyfriars Kirkyard; and along Drummond Street and the Pleasance. North of the Grassmarket the wall runs alongside Granny's Green Steps and has been incorporated into later buildings, including the former Greyfriars Mission Kirk. A line of granite paving across the Grassmarket marks the line of the wall where it was uncovered during construction work in 2008.
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The first runs along Heriot Place from the Flodden Tower, and forms the west boundary of George Heriot's School. The wall along Lauriston Place was demolished in 1762, as the bastions were obstructing traffic. The only remaining section is that forming the south wall of Greyfriars Kirkyard. An inscription on the building at the corner of Teviot Place and Bristo Street reads "1513 Site of Town Wall", although it was the 17th-century Telfer Wall, not the earlier Flodden Wall, which stood on this spot.
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Alexander Brunton (Painting by John Watson Gordon) 35 Albany St, Edinburgh The grave of Rev Alexander Brunton and his wife Mary Balfour, Canongate Kirkyard Prof Very Rev Alexander Brunton DD FRSE FSA (2 October 1772 - 9 February 1854) was a Scottish minister in the Church of Scotland who rose to its highest rank, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1823. He was a noted academic, as Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at the University of Edinburgh. He was married to the eminent author Mary Balfour.
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Udny Mort House Udny Mort House is a category B listed building in the old kirkyard at Udny Green, Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland, built in 1832. It housed corpses until they started to decompose, so their graves would not be desecrated by resurrectionists and body-snatchers digging them up to sell the cadavers to medical colleges for dissection. Bodies were permitted to be stored for up to three months before burial. The circular mort house was designed with a revolving platform and double doors.
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The prisoners were taken to Edinburgh and held on land beside Greyfriars Kirkyard, an area now known as the Covenanters' Prison. Many remained there for several months, until the last of them were transported to the colonies in November. However, a later ship wreck allowed 48 of the 257 prisoners to escape. All those who had taken part on the Covenanter side of the battle were declared rebels and traitors, and the repression during this period has become known as "the Killing Time" in Covenanter histories.
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Earl of Orkney in Tingwall kirkyard The small promontory at the end of Tingwall Loch, known as Tingaholm or Law Ting Holm was once home to Shetland's earliest parliament. It was once an islet entirely surrounded by water and accessed by a stone causeway. In the 1850s the level of the loch was lowered, and the holm took on its present form.Law Ting Holm (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland) Tingwall was also the base of the Archdeaconry in Shetland.
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Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh The Protestant Reformation created a Church of Scotland, or 'kirk', Presbyterian in structure, and Calvinist in doctrine. While 'Presbyterian' and 'Episcopalian' now implies differences in both governance and doctrine, this was not the case in the 17th century. Episcopalian structures were governed by bishops, usually appointed by the monarch, Presbyterian by presbyters, elected by ministers and elders. Arguments over the role of bishops were as much about politics and the power of the monarch as religious practice.
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Plaque, Grassmarket Previous to being hanged, he addressed the spectators at some length, imputing the persecution of the church to the prelates, and declaring his readiness to die for the cause of God, the covenants, and the work of reformation, which had been the glory of Scotland. Hugh Mackail, was only twenty-six years old at the time of his death. He was prepared for burial the Magdalen Chapel and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard "near the east dyke, a little above the stair, near the entry".
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Quick in perception, of very laborious habits, and a tenacious memory, his attainments and learning were regarded as extraordinary, and had his life been prolonged he would doubtless have risen to the highest distinction in the church. He died in 1720, at the early age of twenty-eight. He is buried in the grave of his uncle, William Carstares in Greyfriars Kirkyard.Carstares grave inscription, Greyfriars Kirkyard The grave lies on an outer boundary wall, south-west of the church, backing onto the grounds of George Heriot's School.
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Somerset's Mound, Inveresk Kirkyard The battle site is now in East Lothian. The battle took place most probably in the cultivated ground southeast of Inveresk church, just to the south of the main east-coast railway line. There are two vantage points for viewing the ground. Fa'side Castle above the village of Wallyford was just behind the English position, and with the aid of binoculars a visitor can get a good view of the battle area, though the Scottish position is now obscured by buildings.
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It is probable that there has been a place of worship here since the 5th or 6th century. The present church was designed by Robert McLachlane and completed in 1790. The church was originally a small octagonal building and later extended. A memorial to Covenanters Robert Lockhart and Gabriel Thomson who were shot by Highlandmen and Dragoons under the command of Archibald MacAulay for their adherence to the Solemn League and Covenant as they returned from a coventicle on 1 May 1685, stands in the kirkyard.
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The mausoleum of William Robertson, Greyfriars Kirkyard William Robertson FRSE FSA Scot (19 September 1721 – 11 June 1793) was a Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh. "The thirty years during which [he] presided over the University perhaps represent the highest point in its history."Horn, D. B., A Short History of the University of Edinburgh: 1556–1889, 1967, p.76 He made significant contributions to the writing of Scottish history and the history of Spain and Spanish America.
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Researched at the National Archives of Scotland by Barry Dominic Graham and John Molloy, 2013, The George Beattie Project. He received a good education at the parish school of St Cyrus. During his boyhood and even into adulthood, he was notorious for his frolics and love of practical jokes. It is also related of him, that on Saturday afternoons it was his delight to wander among the "braes" of St Cyrus, and that he used to "visit the auld kirkyard with a kind of melancholy pleasure".
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He died at Edinburgh, after a short illness, on 15 December 1685, and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard,Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 where a monument was erected to his memory. The monument stands on the outer north-east corner of the church. His eldest son, David, became fifth Lord Falconer of Halkerton, and his third daughter, Catherine, married Joseph Hume of Chirnside in the county of Berwick, and was the mother of David Hume the philosopher and historian.
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Memorial to Rev John Drysdale DD, Adam Mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard Drysdale was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife on 29 April 1714, the third son of Anne Ferguson and her husband, Rev John Drysdale of Kirkcaldy Parish Church. His maternal grandfather, William Ferguson, was Provost of Kirkcaldy. He was educated at Kirkcaldy Parish School alongside Adam Smith and James Oswald each of whom became a lifelong friend. In 1732 John was sent to the University of Edinburgh to study classics, philosophy and theology though taking no final degree.
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Guerra had already sung with Bustamante live at the Caminando Juntos concert at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid in June 2018. She appeared along Roi Méndez in the second episode of 99 lugares donde pasar miedo, aired on 4 May 2019 on Discovery MAX, where they visited the Loch Ness, Comlongon Castle and Greyfriars Kirkyard. Between September 2019 and January 2020, Guerra toured 16 cities across Spain with her fellow Operación Triunfo castmate Luis Cepeda on the ImaginBank tour. By December 2019, Guerra had nine platinum records and two gold records.
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On Sunday 25 July 1925 a Conventicle was held in the Dalgarnock Kikrkyard by the Rev. Charles Rolland Ramsay of Closeburn Church, assisted by other local clergy. The intention was to publicly commemorate the sacrifice of the Nithsdale Covenanters and an appeal was made for funds to provide a memorial for the martyrs and to restore the kirkyard and its graves. On the 22nd July, 1928 a second Conventicle was held to unveil and dedicate the Northumbrian style 'Martyrs Cross', Mr John Cunninghame Montgomerie of Dalmore performing the official unveiling.
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After a short while he was dragged down and stripped of his nightgown and shirt, which was then wrapped around his head before he was hauled up again. However, the mob had not tied his hands and, as he struggled free, they broke his arm and shoulder, while another attempted to set light to his naked foot. He was taken down a further time and cruelly beaten before being hung up again, and died a short while later, just before midnight on 7 September 1736. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, the following day.
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The spot where Porteous died is today marked by a memorial plate in the Grassmarket. The site of the Tolbooth is marked by paving stones arranged in the form of a heart, "The Heart of Midlothian". Tour guides will say that, even today, passers-by will spit on the spot, a tradition originally intended to demonstrate their contempt for the hated Tolbooth. Porteous was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, on 9 September,Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 near the westmost wall of the original graveyard.
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Her friend Mrs Moodie reported that among Agnes's last words were, I go to Jesus. The Clarinda-Sylvander letters in Mrs Moodie's possession were valued at twenty-five pounds. In 1810 Agnes moved from Potterrow to live at 14 Calton Hill, Edinburgh where in 1825 Burns’s fourth son, Captain James Glencairn Burns, visited her. She died of 'Old Age' on 23 October 1841 and was buried on 27th in the North East corner of the tomb of her cousin William Craig, Lord Craig, in the East Ground of Canongate Kirkyard.
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Self Portrait, or The Portrait Painter (c. 1698). Oil on canvas, 77.2 × 63.5 cm. In the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. The vault of Sir John Medina, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina (1659 - 5 October 1710)Getty Name List – and variants, sometimes spelled "Baptiste", and "de Medina", but always "John" was an artist of Flemish-Spanish origin who worked in England and Scotland, mostly as a portrait painter, though he was also the first illustrator of Paradise Lost by John Milton in 1688.
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On 4 August 1835, he was suddenly taken unwell; a stupor succeeded, from which it was impossible to rouse him; and on the following day he breathed his last, without a groan or struggle, but insensible to the presence of his grieving friends who were assembled round his death-bed. Thus died in his sixty-third year of age. His remains were buried in the western extension of Greyfriars Kirkyard, halfway down the eastern path. A large monument was erected by his congregation, with an inscription commemorative of his worth and their regret.
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Meek's gravestone, Cambuslang Old Parish Kirkyard James Meek was born the son of John Meek and Janet Millar of Fortissat House in Shotts. He was baptized in Shotts Parish Church on 21 March 1740, according to the Parish records, two years after a brother John. His family were minor landowners, or lairds who had held land in the area since at least the 17th century. Several of his ancestors had been cautioned, imprisoned and bonded, and finally had their land confiscated for Covenanting activity during the reign of King James VII.
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Her widowhood and the straitened circumstances in which she found herself after Burns's death attracted national attention and a charitable fund was collected for her and the children. She outlived her husband by 38 years, and lived to see his name become celebrated throughout the world. Twenty years after his death, his fame had reached such a point that his remains were removed from their modest grave in St Michael's Kirkyard, Dumfries, and placed in a specially commissioned mausoleum. Here, Jean Armour was buried when she died in 1834.
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It is unknown when Malvina Wells was brought to Scotland. She worked for Joanna Isabella Macrae nee Maclean, daughter of John McLean, who owned slaves in Carriacou.Gravestone of Malvina Wells in St John's Kirkyard, Edinburgh In 1851, Malvina Wells was living at 33 Great King Street, Edinburgh, and was listed as a lady's maid, in the house of John A Macrae, Writer to the Signet, and his wife Joanna Macrae. By 1861, Malvina Wells lived at 42 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, as head of household, with a boarder named Mary Johnston, dressmaker.
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A fort stood on this mound and this latter chapel was probably built to accommodate the settlers within and around the stronghold on the banks of the River Ury. A Manse was built there and the kirkyard also grew around it. This graveyard is now known locally as "The Bass" or "The Old Cemetery". During the reign of Malcolm Canmore (1057) and his Queen, Margaret, Inverurie was created one of the new Saxon parishes with its dependent chapel at Montkegy placed under the care of Lindores Abbey in Fife.
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In 1732, he died from natural causes in Edinburgh, possibly from a condition caused by his stay in Newgate Prison. Shortly before he died, he was said to have stated that he would pay £150,000 to anybody who could prove to him that there was no hell. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard; his coffin was attacked on its way to the graveyard, and it is said that dead cats were thrown into his grave. Upon his death, John Arbuthnot published "Epitaph on Don Francisco" in The London Magazine (April 1732).
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The Coachman's Stone Detail from the grave of John Frederick Lampe, Canongate Kirkyard Very Rev Thomas Wilkie (1645–1711) first minister of Canongate Kirk and twice Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The Coachman's Stone, dating to around 1770, displays a skull and the motto "memento mori". It is inscribed "This stone is for the society of Coachdrivers In the Canongate It was chiefly erected by Thomas Jamieson and Robert Maving, treasurer, 1734–65". Below this inscription is a relief sculpture of a coach and horses crossing a bridge.
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In 1725 he patented his process, and tried but failed to persuade printers in Edinburgh to take up his invention. In 1729 he endeavoured to push his new process of printing, on which he was still working, in London by joining in partnership with a stationer and a type- founder but, disappointed in his workmen and his partners, he returned despondent to Edinburgh. Although he had offers for use of his process from Dutch printers, he turned them down from patriotic motives. He died in poverty in Edinburgh and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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Cramond Kirk The Stuart tomb in Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born at Dunearn House near Burntisland in Fife in 1745 the son of James Stuart of Binend, later Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and his first wife, Elizabeth Drummond, daughter of Dr Adam Drummond. He originally trained as a minister and was licensed by the Church of Scotland in 1772. He was ordained in Cramond Kirk the following year. He left Cramond in 1776, later (1781) becoming an Anabaptist minister in Edinburgh. In 1777 he inherited his father's estates in Fife.
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Towards the end of his life he took an interest in the proposed amalgamation of the Scottish Academy and the artist associates of the Institution, an arrangement which was completed a month after his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1823 his proposer being Sir David Brewster. He died at home, 65 Castle StreetEdinburgh Post Office Directory 1828 in Edinburgh's First New Townon 23 June 1829. He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard in the lair of his in- laws, the Millars of Earnock.
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Robert Burn mausoleum by William Burn The work of architect Robert Burn (1752–1815) includes Nelson's Monument on Calton Hill. This imposing family vault says nothing of his works. He was a respected architect by most, but not by his near-namesake Robert Burns, who commissioned Burn to erect a monument over the grave of his hero and inspiration, the poet Robert Fergusson who died in the poorhouse and is buried in Canongate Kirkyard, visible from the southern reaches of Old Calton. Such commissions were normal, as many architects specialised in funerary monuments.
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The grave of James Buchanan of Drumpellier, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born at Long Croft in Glasgow (now known as Virginia Street) in 1726 the son of Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier and his wife Marion Montgomery. When James was a teenager his father served as Lord Provost of Glasgow. Although he inherited his father's tobacco plantations and estates, including Drumpellier on his father's death in 1759, he was ruined in 1777 following the American Revolution. He sold the bulk of his estates to his cousin, Andrew Stirling (of William Stirling & Sons).
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The grave of Admiral Duncan's family, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Duncan's uncle was Sir William Duncan, physician-extraordinary to King George III and first of the Duncan baronets. On 6 June 1777 Duncan married Henrietta (1749–1832), daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session. On his death Duncan left a family of four daughters and two sons. His eldest son succeeded to the peerage and later became Earl of Camperdown; the second son, Henry, died a captain in the navy and K.C.H. in 1835.
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Aberlemno 1, 3 and 5 are located in recesses in the dry stone wall at the side of the road in Aberlemno (). Aberlemno 2 is found in the Kirkyard, 300 yards south of the roadside stones.() In recent years, bids have been made to move the stones to an indoor location to protect them from weathering, but this has met with local resistance and the stones are currently covered in the winter. Aberlemno 4, the Flemington Farm Stone was found 30 yards from the church (), and is now on display in the McManus Galleries, Dundee.
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From 1837 he was a collector of the police rates at Leith, based at Leith Town Hall (now Leith Police Station). In April 1850 he organised the restoration of the memorial to Robert Fergusson in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Robert Gilfillan He died of apoplexy at his home in East HermitageEdinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1850–51 on Leith Links where he lived with his niece, Marion Gilfillan. He is buried in South Leith Parish Churchyard, just south-east of the church.
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His other works included a massive historical study entitled A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels in eighteen volumes. Kerr began the series in 1811, dedicating it to Sir Alexander Cochrane, K.B., Vice-Admiral of the White. Publication did not cease following Kerr's death in 1813; the latter volumes were published into the 1820s. He died at home, Hope Park House,Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1813 east of the Meadows in Edinburgh, where he had lived since 1810, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh against the eastern wall.
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The grave of Adam Drummond, Greyfriars Kirkyard Drummond was the eldest son of John Drummond. He was educated at Leiden University, and after briefly studying law joined the army in 1739, being commissioned as lieutenant in the 47th Regiment of Foot in 1741 and promoted to captain in 1745. In this capacity he served against the Jacobite rising at the Battle of Prestonpans, where he was captured. While being held prisoner in Edinburgh, 400 guineas was smuggled to him by Colin Simpson, apprentice to his uncle Adam Drummond, a surgeon-apothecary in Edinburgh.
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Linton's tombstone at the Inverbervie Kirkyard After the troubles at Scott & Linton, Linton joined Gourlay Brothers as assistant manager at their yard in Camperdown, Dundee. In December, 1869 Linton took a job as head of the modelling and design department at Leckie, Wood and Munro who were shipbuilders and engineers. At the beginning of April 1870 he resigned due to his involvement with a new firm of shipbuilders Morton, Wyld & Co. who started operations at the yard previously occupied by Scott & Linton. However, in November 1870 they also went bankrupt.
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The old parish church, a roofless 16th century building currently in poor condition, survives on a mound in the old kirkyard, by the Gowrie Burn. This site was formerly close to the sea; much land has been reclaimed from the Firth of Tay in recent times, and it is now some way inland. This was an early Christian site, dedicated to St Curetán. An artistically important and well-preserved cross-slab carved on five faces from this site is on display in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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In the Middle Ages there was only one burgh kirk - the Kirk of St Nicholas, one of Scotland's largest parish churches. Like a number of other Scottish kirks, it was subdivided after the Reformation, in this case into the East and West churches. The Kirk of St Nicholas congregation is now an ecumenical partnership in membership of both the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church. The large kirkyard of the Kirk of St Nicholas is separated from Union Street by a 147 ft (45 m) long Ionic façade, built in 1831.
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John Gray, the local policeman, owns Bobby the Westie, but allows a shy boy called Ewan to befriend his dog. When Gray dies and is buried in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, the dog will not leave the grave, despite his fondness for Ewan. The Greyfriars gravedigger, James Brown, takes a liking to Bobby, and gives him food and protection. However, the passing of a new dog law in Scotland threatens Bobby's very existence, and Ewan must do everything in his power to save his canine friend, even when it involves the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
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Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, where the town council erected a "refugee camp" to deal with the influx of starving families in 1696 The results of the climatic conditions were inflation, severe famine and depopulation, particularly in the north of the country. The price of oatmeal, the staple Scottish cereal crop, peaked in Aberdeen in 1698, which was particularly badly hit because of its reliance on the Baltic trade,H. M. Dingwall, "Health, famine and disease: 2 1500–1770" in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), , pp. 286–7.
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The grave of Charles Kemp Davidson, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Davidson was born at Queen Mary Maternity Home in Edinburgh on 13 April 1929, the son of Charlotte Brookes Kemp and her husband, Rev Dr Donald Davidson (1892–1970) of St Andrews and St Georges Church.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Charles Kemp Davidson He was educated at Edinburgh Academy then Fettes College. He read Greats at Brasenose College, Oxford going on to study law at the University of Edinburgh.Telegraph (newspaper) obituary: 2 July 2009 From 1953 to 1954 he undertook National Service, as a subaltern in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
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These were leased, and protected bodies for long enough to deter the attentions 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.C.Golledge (2018) Greyfriards Graveyard, Amberley Publishing Notable monuments include the Martyr's Monument, which commemorates executed Covenanters.
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David Rizzio's career was remembered and referred to by Henry IV of France. Mocking the pretension of James VI of Scotland to be the "Scottish Solomon", he remarked that "he hoped he was not David the fiddler's son", alluding to the possibility that Rizzio, not Darnley, fathered King James. It has been alleged that Rizzio is buried at Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh; this would have required reinterment of a Catholic with no living friends in a Protestant graveyard 120 years after his death. It is considered more likely that he lies in an unmarked grave in the graveyard attaching Holyrood Abbey.
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Tolbooth and Luckenbooths on the north of the church and Parliament House in the kirkyard to its south The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland identified St Giles' as "the central focus of the Old Town".RCAHMS 1951, p. 25. The church occupies a prominent and flat portion of the ridge that leads down from Edinburgh Castle; it sits on the south side of the High Street: the main street of the Old Town and one of the streets that make up the Royal Mile.MacGibbon and Ross 1896, ii p. 419.Coltart 1936, p. 136.
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Requiem Mass for the King and the memorial mass for the dead of the battle were held in St Giles' and Walter Chepman endowed a chapel of the Crucifixion in the lower part of the kirkyard in the King's memory.Marshall 2009, p. 29.Lees 1889, p. 72. The earliest record of Reformed sentiment at St Giles' is in 1535, when Andrew Johnston, one of the chaplains, was forced to leave Scotland on the grounds of heresy.Marshall 2009, p. 42. In October 1555, the town council ceremonially burned English language books, likely Reformers’ texts, outside St Giles'.
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The Class II Kirkyard stone c. 800, Aberlemno Art in Medieval Scotland includes all forms of artistic production within the modern borders of Scotland, between the fifth century and the adoption of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. In the early Middle Ages, there were distinct material cultures evident in the different federations and kingdoms within what is now Scotland. Pictish art was the only uniquely Scottish Medieval style; it can be seen in the extensive survival of carved stones, particularly in the north and east of the country, which hold a variety of recurring images and patterns.
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The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland Scottish Protestantism was focused on the Bible, which was seen as infallible and the major source of moral authority. Many Bibles were large, illustrated and highly valuable objects. The Genevan translation was commonly usedG. D. Henderson, Religious Life in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), , pp. 1–4. until in 1611 the Kirk adopted the Authorised King James Version and the first Scots version was printed in Scotland in 1633, but the Geneva Bible continued to be employed into the seventeenth century.
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Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1816-17 He operated what was called the Northern Circuit (of Scottish courts) in conjunction with Lord Gillies. He died at the Glendoick estate near Perth on 23 April 1819 while visiting his father-in-law, Major John Craigie,The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, vol 83 (1819) just prior to a planned trip to visit Lord Kinnaird in his recently completed house, Rossie Priory. On Thursday 27 April he was buried in the burial ground of his father's cousin Adam Smith in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
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The major exceptions to the common Greek cross plan are in the work of Smith, who had become a Jesuit in his youth. These included the rebuilding of Holyrood Abbey undertaken for James VII in 1687, which was outfitted in an elaborate style. In 1691 Smith designed the mausoleum of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in Greyfriars Kirkyard, a circular structure modelled on the Tempietto di San Pietro, designed by Donato Bramante (1444–1514). The drive to Episcopalian forms of worship may have resulted in more linear patterns, including rectangular plans with the pulpit at the end opposite the entrance.
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He was born at 17 Minto Street in south EdinburghEdinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1821-22 on 12 January 1821 the son of William McCandlish of the Exchequer (1788-1872), Receiver General of Taxes for Scotland, and his wife, Felicite Leslie MacGregor (1794-1878).Grave of William McCandlish, Greyfriars Kirkyard John was apprenticed to John Archibald Campbell, Commissioner at Law, at 2 Albyn Place in Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1837-38 In 1845 he became a Writer to the Signet (WS). He then became General Manager and Chief Actuary of the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company.
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More recent comparative analyses have suggested that it may be of a later, mid-ninth-century origin. Aberlemno 3 has different proportions to the Kirkyard Cross-slab, being relatively tall and thin, with parallel sides which have incised decoration (those of the other cross-slab are plain). The monument's height and decoration on four faces both suggest it is later in date than Aberlemno 2. Its nearest artistic analogies appear to be sculptures from Easter Ross in northern Scotland, notable the Hilton of Cadboll stone (now in the Museum of Scotland), which has a closely similar hunting scene.
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The grave of Adam Gib, Greyfriars Kirkyard Memorial to Rev Adam Gib, from Bristo St Secession Church, National Museum of Scotland Rev Adam Gib (15 April 1714 – 14 June 1788) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly wrote his first covenant with God in the blood of his own veins. Gib was born in the parish of Muckhart, in southern Perthshire on 15 April 1714. He studied literature and theology at the University of Edinburgh and at Perth, and was licensed as a preacher in 1740.
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The stunning hammerhead timber ceiling of South Leith Parish Church South Leith Parish Church, originally the Kirk of Our Lady, St Mary, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home (author of Douglas) and John Pew, the man from whom the author Robert Louis Stevenson reputedly derived the character of Blind Pew in the novel Treasure Island. The church has been repaired, used as a magazine and reconstructed but still looks similar to its appearance on a 1608 seal.
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Constable, p. 4-7, includes a description of the events In 1597 he was appointed to a commission to set the value of foreign gold and silver money brought into the country, and in 1599 to one which studied how to reissue the circulating coinage.Constable, p. 4 His last parliamentary act was in 1607, when he was appointed to a commission to assess a tax for the purpose of printing Regiam Majestatem, an edition of the old laws of Scotland.Constable, p. 5 He is buried against the eastern wall of Greyfriars Kirkyard and has a highly elaborate monument.
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Adjacent to one lair, the remains of the bottom board of an infant's coffin was found. This naturally resulted in speculation, based on Burns's well known extra-marital intimacy, on the real cause of Mary's death, but evidence was subsequently given that the child had died in 1827, and had also been buried in the Macpherson's plot. In a solemn ceremony on 13 November 1920 Mary's remains were re-interred in Greenock Cemetery under the 1842 monument designed by John Mossman, moved from the old West Kirkyard, which depicts the romantic couple, in memory of Robert Burns' lost love.
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The grave of Colin Maclaurin, Greyfriars Kirkyard Colin MacLaurin Road, Edinburgh In 1733, Maclaurin married Anne Stewart, the daughter of Walter Stewart, the Solicitor General for Scotland, by whom he had seven children. His eldest son John Maclaurin studied Law, was a Senator of the College of Justice, and became Lord Dreghorn; he was also joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Maclaurin actively opposed the Jacobite rising of 1745 and superintended the operations necessary for the defence of Edinburgh against the Highland army. Maclaurin compiled a diary of his exertions against the Jacobites, both within and without the city.
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His growing success led him to open a bookshop (independent of his printworks) next to the Red Lion Tavern on the Royal Mile near St Giles Cathedral. In 1711 his business acquired a new legitimacy, being granted a Royal Patent by Queen Anne allowing him to publish major controlled items such as Bibles. One result of this was his Crown Bible of 1715, published in 8 volumes after several years of work and described as “a matchless beauty”.A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: C H Timperley He died on 22 September 1722 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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Rhu and Shandon Parish Church dates from 1851 and stands on the site of an 18th-century predecessor. Amongst those buried in the kirkyard is Henry Bell, whose Comet was the world's first commercially successful steamship. In 1851 the marine engineer Robert Napier built the statue which today marks Bell's grave. Famously a Theological controversy took place in Rhu known as the "Row Heresy", involving the Church of Scotland minister John McLeod Campbell who began to teach doctrines contrary to the Westminster Confession of Faith and was subsequently thrown out of the ministry in May 1831.
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David Drummond, the third Lord Madertie requested in his will that a library be kept partly in the west end of the chapel and partly in a building he had recently constructed in the east end of the kirkyard. This was to house David's large collection of books in religion, witchcraft, demonology and astrology. David died in 1692, and the Governors of the Innerpeffray Mortification, a registered charity under Scottish law, started to administer and maintain the collection in 1694. The library was to be devoted for the use of the public and became the first public lending library in Scotland.
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There are two mortsafes in reasonable condition outside the old Aberfoyle church in Stirling, which was fully 30 miles from the nearest School of Anatomy in Glasgow. One can also be found, in a slightly rusted state, to the right of the door outside Skene Parish Church, Kirkton of Skene, Aberdeenshire. Another in reasonable condition can be found in the kirkyard at the remote hamlet of Towie, west of Alford. Tullibody, as well as having a famous stone coffin, is also recorded to have had an iron coffin case as an attempt to thwart local body-snatchers.
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Samuel Joseph 1822 Henry Mackenzie Mackenzie's house at 6 Heriot Row, Edinburgh The grave of Henry MacKenzie, Greyfriars Kirkyard Henry Mackenzie FRSE (August 1745 – 14 January 1831, born and died in Edinburgh)The Century Cyclopaedia of Names (1894). p. 637. was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer. He was sometimes described as the Addison of the North. While Mackenzie is now remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession allowing him to indulge his interest in writing.
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Covenanter Monument to John Hunter above the Devil's Beef Tub --- Inscription on the monument reads "On the hillside opposite John Hunter Covenanter was shot by Douglas's Dragoons 1685 his grave is in Tweedsmuir Kirkyard" Freedom of Access,Scottish Outdoor Access Code - Access Legislation the right to roam where you choose, was written into Scottish law by the new Scottish Parliament in 2002. Prior to that it had been an unwritten right by custom. In the Southern Uplands of Scotland there are plenty of wild places in which to exercise this right, of which The Moffat Hills range is amongst the best.
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255 After that he became commanding officer of the fourth-rate HMS Preston, in which he lost his arm during an action off Dogger Bank, in November 1781 and then became commanding officer of the second-rate HMS Glory in January 1795. He was appointed Commander-in- Chief, The Nore in June 1799 and retired as Admiral of the White. Graeme lived his later life at 87 Princes Street in Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory, 1816-17 Graeme died in Edinburgh on 5 August 1818 aged 76 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the centre of Edinburgh.
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A Church of Denmark parish church in Holte, with the Dannebrog flying in its kirkyard A national church is a Christian church associated with a specific ethnic group or nation state. The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century, during the emergence of modern nationalism. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a draft discussing the question of church and state around 1828 wrote that :"a National Church might exist, and has existed, without [Christianity], because before the institution of the Christian Church - as [...] the Levitical Church in the Hebrew Constitution, [and] the Druidical in the Celtic, would suffice to prove".Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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This meant a return to persecution; preaching at a conventicle was made punishable by death, while attendance attracted severe sanctions. In 1674, heritors and masters were made responsible for the 'good behaviour' of their tenants and servants; from 1677, this meant posting bonds for those living on their land. In 1678, 3,000 Lowland militia and 6,000 Highlanders, known as the "Highland Host", were billeted in the Covenanting shires, especially those in the South-West, as a form of punishment. St Giles Kirkyard, Edinburgh, where prisoners were held after the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679 In 1679, a group of Covenanters killed Archbishop Sharp.
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Perhaps the most striking single feature of the kirkyard is ‘the Melville Tomb’. The mausoleum of the local lairdly family of Melville of Halhill, the tomb was restored from an extremely ruinous condition in 2004. It was erected in 1609 to house the remains of Christian Boswell, the wife of the courtier, diplomat and memoirist Sir James Melville (1536–1617) of Halhill. She was a Boswell of Balmuto, an estate north of Burntisland. Balmuto Castle, much altered, is still inhabited; in 1722, it passed from the line of Boswell of Balmuto into the possession of their kinsfolk the Boswells of Auchinleck, the family of Samuel Johnson’s biographer James Boswell (1740–95).
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The kirkyard, which is separate from the church, is home to a number of headstones dating back to the 18th century, and a burial enclosure for the Campbell Maconachies of Meadowbank House that dates back to 1662. The other burial enclosure was constructed by the Royal Society of Physicians as a memorial for an important founding member, William Cullen (d.1790). Professor Cullen was a significant figure in 18th century medicine, chemistry, agriculture and practised the application of science to agriculture at a nearby farm. At the west end of the village is Kirknewton railway station, officially known as Midcalder Railway Station until 1982.
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From 1628 until his death Wallace was engaged on the design and construction of Heriot's Hospital, a school, again in the Anglo- Flemish style. He was almost certainly the principal designer of the building, which was continued after his death by William Aytoun. One of Wallace's last works was carving the monument to John Byres of Coates in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, unpaid for at his death, and his will also includes debts for works at Moray House for the Countess of Home. In addition, Pinkie House and the original, unexecuted, design for Drumlanrig Castle have been attributed to Wallace on stylistic grounds, although no documentary evidence exists to confirm his involvement.
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Main Street looking east To traffic passing through Upper Largo it can be mistaken for a single street (this is Main Street) of mostly stone built shops and houses. A junction in the centre of this street leads either north-east towards St Andrews along the A915 road or east along the coast on the A917. At the western end of Main Street is the Upper Largo Hotel and a ship's chandlery, in what was formerly the village garage and filling station. A minor road north of here leads to a small village green and the adjacent kirkyard of the Largo and Newburn Parish Church.
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Drostan was one of the twelve companions who sailed from Ireland to Scotland around 563 with St Columba. These twelve became known as the 'Brethren of St Columba'."St Drostan's Kirkyard, Insch", Aberdeenshore Council He accompanied that saint when he visited Aberdour in Buchan, about 45 miles from Aberdeen. According to the Celtic legend St. Columcille, his disciple Drostan, and others, went from Iona into Buchan and established an important missionary centre at Deer on the banks of the Ugie on lands given him by the mormaer or chief of the district whose son he had by his prayers freed of a dangerous illness.
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Greyfriars Kirkyard, where the National Covenant was signed in 1638 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. The name derived from Covenant, a biblical term for a bond or agreement with God. The origins of the movement lay in disputes with James VI & I, and his son Charles I of England over church structure and doctrine. In 1638, thousands of Scots signed the National Covenant, pledging to resist changes imposed by Charles on the kirk; following victory in the 1639 and 1640 Bishops' Wars, the Covenanters took control of Scotland.
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Martyrs' Monument Greyfriars Kirkyard Covenanter graves and memorials from the 'Killing Time' became important in perpetuating a political message, initially by the small minority of the United Societies who remained outside the kirk. In 1701, their Assembly undertook to recover or mark the graves of the dead; many were to be found in remote places, as the government of the time deliberately sought to avoid creating places of pilgrimage. 'Old Mortality', an 1816 novel by Sir Walter Scott, features a character who spends his time travelling around Scotland, renewing inscriptions on Covenanter graves. In 1966, the Scottish Covenanter Memorial Association was established, which maintains these monuments throughout Scotland.
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The old kirkyard (graveyard) on Copeland Island, also known as Big Island. There are three islands included in the Copeland Islands: the Great Copeland Island (also known as Big Island or Copeland Island), the Lighthouse Island (also known as Old Island, which does not have a lighthouse now), and Mew Island, which does have a lighthouse. Over a century ago, Lighthouse Island had a population of about 100, including a school master with 28 pupils. In 1671, James Ross obtained a fee farm grant of the islands, and in 1770 David Kerr bought them from The 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil (by the second creation).
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The memorial to John Adam in the Adam mausoleum, Greyfriars kirkyard The eldest son of William Adam of Blair Adam, he was born on 4 May 1779, and was educated at Charterhouse School. He received a writership on the Bengal establishment in 1794; and, after a year at Edinburgh University, landed at Calcutta in India in February 1796 to work for the East India Company.Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland: The Grampian Society, 1871 Most of Adam's career was spent in the secretariat. He was private as well as political secretary to the Marquess of Hastings, whom he accompanied in the field during the Third Anglo-Maratha War.
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On 3 June, Claverhouse and his troops headed for Stirling Castle, the strongest fort in Scotland to await the arrival of reinforcements under Monmouth, which included the militia and two regiments of dragoons. He escaped censure for Drumclog but made subordinate to Monmouth; on 22 June, the sides met again at the Battle of Bothwell Brig and this time the Covenanters were routed. Nearly 1200 Covenanter prisoners were held at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh; Claverhouse was dispatched to London to protest against Monmouth's alleged leniency towards them. This began his close relationship with James, who in 1680 awarded him the barony of Freuch in Galloway.
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The Class II Kirkyard stone c800AD, Aberlemno A Pictish stone is a type of monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs. A few have ogham inscriptions. Located in Scotland, mostly north of the Clyde-Forth line and on the Eastern side of the country, these stones are the most visible remaining evidence of the Picts and are thought to date from the 6th to 9th century, a period during which the Picts became Christianized. The earlier stones have no parallels from the rest of the British Isles, but the later forms are variations within a wider Insular tradition of monumental stones such as high crosses.
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By the time that he died in 1803, Walker had taught well over 800 students, some of whom would go on to have a significant impact on 19th-century natural history. Some of these names include Rev. Prof. John Playfair, Sir James Edward Smith, Sir James Hall, Mungo Park, Robert Waring Darwin, Robert Brown, Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Charles Hope, and Samuel Latham Mitchell. He died at his home at 1 St John StreetEdinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1800-1801 on the Canongate on 31 December 1803, and is buried in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, just east of the church building.
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Shortly afterwards some signboards painted by him attracted the notice of Captain Basil Hall, who sought out and encouraged the young artist. In the year 1824 his picture of 'The Tinkers ' established him as a favourite with the public, and shortly after the formation of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1830 he was elected one of its members. In 1833 his address is given as Robb's Court, off the Canongate but by 1840 he was living at 113 Princes Street in a house looking over Princes Street Gardens to Edinburgh Castle.Edinburgh Post office Directory 1840 Bonnar died at Edinburgh in 1853 and is buried in St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
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The Class II Kirkyard stone c. 800, Aberlemno From the 5th to the mid-9th centuries the art of the Picts is primarily known through stone sculpture, and a smaller number of pieces of metalwork, often of very high quality. After the conversion of the Picts and the cultural assimilation of Pictish culture into that of the Scots and Angles, elements of Pictish art became incorporated into the style known as Insular art, which was common over Britain and Ireland and became highly influential in continental Europe and contributed to the development of Romanesque styles.N. Saul, The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), , p. 211.
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The grave of Lord Patrick Grant, Greyfriars Kirkyard – containing Lord Monboddo From 1754 until 1767 Monboddo was one of a number of distinguished proprietors of the Canongate Theatre. He clearly enjoyed this endeavour even when some of his fellow judges pointed out that the activity might cast a shadow over his sombre image as jurist. Here he had occasion to further associate with David Hume who was a principal actor in one of the plays. He had actually met Hume earlier when Monboddo was a curator of the Advocates Library and David Hume served as keeper of that library for several years while he wrote his history.
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The Signing of the National Covenant. The Victorian painter William Hole places Alexander Henderson at the centre of events in 1638 Hugh Binning's political views were based on his theology. Binning was a Covenanter, a movement that began in Scotland at Greyfriars Kirkyard in 1638 with the National Covenant and continued with the 1643 Solemn League and Covenant—in effect a treaty between the English Long Parliament and Scotland for the preservation of the reformed religion in exchange for troops to confront the threat of Irish Catholic troops joining the Royalist army. Binning could also be described as a Protestor; both political positions were taken because of their religious implications.
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The highlands of the shire afforded retreat to the persecuted Covenanters, who, at Sanquhar, published in 1680 their declaration against the king, anticipating the principles of the glorious Revolution by several years. Prince Charles Edward’s ambition left the shire comparatively untouched, for the Jacobite sentiment made little appeal to the people. Craigenputtock House 1829 Dumfriesshire is inseparably connected with the name of Robert Burns, who farmed at Ellisland Farm on the Nith for three years, and spent the last five years of his life in Dumfries. Thomas Carlyle was born at Ecclefechan, in a house still standing, and was buried beside his parents in the kirkyard of the old Secession church (now the United Free).
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Bust of Thomas Charles Hope by Sir John Steell, Old College, University of Edinburgh 31 Moray Place, Edinburgh The Hope grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a British physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at . In 1815 Hope was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1815–19), and as vice-president of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1823–33) during the presidencies of Walter Scott and Thomas Makdougall Brisbane. He founded a chemistry prize at the University of Edinburgh.
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He married Isabella (died 8 November 1703, aged 70), who was the daughter of Robert Cunningham, minister of Holywood, Ireland, and had issue — William, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, founder of the family of Law of Elvingston, East Lothian. John Law's vault William built a tomb for his parents in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The inscription reads: :Memoriae optimorum parentum, D. Joannis Law, ecclesiae apud Edinensis pastoris prudentissimi, vigilantis- simi, purioris religionis studio & pietate non fucata insignis; et Isabella Cuninghame, conjugis amantissimae, vera sanctitate & placidi ac sedati animi ornamento conspicuae; qui mortalitatem exuerunt, ad immortalis vitae gaudia nitentes; ille 26 die Decembris, anno Dom. 1712, aetatis suae 80 ; haec 8 die Novembris, anno Dom.
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The 1842 monument to her, designed by John Mossman, was moved from the old Kirkyard to Greenock Cemetery, and Mary's remains were re-interred under it on 13 November 1920 in a solemn ceremony. The Pirrie Hall to the south of the church Harland and Wolff's contribution was organised by Lord Pirrie, and included provision of a new church hall on the new site, which would take the congregation during the works. He died before this happened. Five days after the church was closed for work to start, the Pirrie Hall named after him opened on 19 February 1925 and provided a temporary place of worship giving churchgoers the opportunity to watch progress on the replacement.
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Rock House was home to Hill & Adamson's studio Their collaboration, with Hill providing skill in composition and lighting, and Adamson considerable sensitivity and dexterity in handling the camera, proved extremely successful, and they soon broadened their subject matter. Adamson's studio, "Rock House", on the Calton Hill in Edinburgh became the centre of their photographic experiments. Using the calotype process, they produced a wide range of portraits depicting well-known Scottish luminaries of the time, including Hugh Miller, both in the studio and in outdoors settings, often amongst the elaborate tombs in Greyfriars Kirkyard. They photographed local and Fife landscapes and urban scenes, including images of the Scott Monument under construction in Edinburgh.
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Colinton in the 19th century Grave of Olaf Vennesland, Colinton Kirkyard Originally sited within a steep-sided glen on a convenient fording point on the Water of Leith, and expanding from there, Colinton's history dates back to before the 11th century. Close to the Water of Leith is Colinton Parish Church, correctly called St Cuthbert's Parish Church, which was founded as the Church of Halis (Hailes) around 1095 by Elthelred, third son of Malcolm III and Queen Margaret. The current exterior largely dates from 1907 but the structure dates from 1650.Buildings of Edinburgh, by Colin McWilliam The entrance is marked by a lych gate, rare in Scotland and more common in southern England.
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The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh The National Covenant of 1638 in Edinburgh's Huntly House Museum. Believed to be the original from which copies were made. Chambers encyclopedia describes the Cameronians being official designated, Reformed Presbyterians. It continues — no doubt, the principles of the body are those for which Cameron contended and died; but it assumed no distinct form till after the Revolution of 1688; and it might briefly be defined as consisting of a small party of Presbyterians, who objected to the Revolution settlement in church and state, and desired to see in full force that kind of civil and ecclesiastical polity that prevailed in Scotland from 1638 to 1649.
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Werner Kissling died penniless, on 3 February 1988 at the Moorheads Nursing Home in Dumfries, leaving behind him one of the most extensive photographic records of the Scottish Hebrides ever made. In his room, was found a single suitcase, filled with personal papers, photographs and lantern slides reflecting his passionate involvement with the ordinary people of the Western Isles. Also, in the suitcase was a postcard sent by his mother from the Isle of Lewis in 1905, which must have inspired in Kissling a love of the Hebrides which was to last until his death. He was buried in the town's St Michael's kirkyard in an unmarked grave, a stone's throw from that of Robert Burns.
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Within a few days he was seen walking through Edinburgh to St Giles Cathedral from the house in the High Street to further comply with the legal requirements. The Governor died at Pitfour on 29 December 1820 and during mid January 1821 he was the last of the family to be buried in the family vault at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The inheritance which then passed to his illegitimate son came to a phenomenal amount as it was assessed to be comparable to £30,000,000 in 2008. It included the extensive lands of Pitfour, which by that time stretched to over 30,000 acres, as well as all properties, sugar plantations and slaves in Trinidad and Tobago.
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The use of burial aisles, an extension projecting for the main body of the church, almost exclusively used for burial and commemoration, represented a uniquely Scottish solution to this problem.A. Spicer, "'Defyle not Christ kirk with your carrion': burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland", in B. Gordon and P. Marshall, eds, The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000), , pp. 150–53. For most ranks in society the kirkyard remained the desired place of burial. From the seventeenth century burials were increasingly marked by gravestones, often including inscriptions that indicated affection for and the virtues of the deceased.
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The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland The Reformation, carried out in Scotland in the mid-sixteenth century and heavily influenced by Calvinism, amounted to a revolution in religious practice. It led to the abolition of auricular confession, the wafer in mass, which was no longer seen as a "work", Latin in services, prayers to Mary and the Saints and the doctrine of Purgatory. The interiors of churches were transformed, with the removal of the High Altar, altar rails, rood screens, choir stalls, side altars, statues and images of the saints. The colourful paintwork of the late Middle Ages was removed, with walls whitewashed to conceal murals.
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Notorious criminals from Edinburgh's past include Deacon Brodie, head of a trades guild and Edinburgh city councillor by day but a burglar by night, who is said to have been the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and murderers Burke and Hare who delivered fresh corpses for dissection to the famous anatomist Robert Knox. Another well-known Edinburgh resident was Greyfriars Bobby. The small Skye Terrier reputedly kept vigil over his dead master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard for 14 years in the 1860s and 1870s, giving rise to a story of canine devotion which plays a part in attracting visitors to the city.
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250th anniversary plaque in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirkyard In the years following World War I, the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary needed to expand once more and was interested in the site then occupied by Watson's. At the same time, the Archibald Place building was cramped and in need of modernisation, as well as being distant from the school's playing fields at Myreside. In 1924 the Merchant Company announced that they had taken the decision to sell the Archibald Place building to the Infirmary for a "fair" price. In 1927, agreement was made to acquire the site of Merchiston Castle School – adjacent to the Myreside playing fields – and a competition was held to design the new school building.
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Lauriston Castle The grave of Rev Thomas Hardy, Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh Very Rev Thomas Hardy (occasionally Thomas Hardie) FRSE DD (22 April 1748 – 21 November 1798) was a Scottish Minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. He was better known for his political and social activities than his scholarship, though he was a popular and eloquent preacher. His academic lectures, it is said, were often met with applause. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the British Government during the troubled times of the French Revolution, as was natural to one whose career had benefited from the patronage of Henry Dundas.
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Coates Hall was bought by William Walker around 1800. His spinster daughters, Mary and Barbara Walker, gifted both the garden of their home and huge funds to the Episcopal Church of Scotland in 1873 for the building of St Mary's Cathedral. In 1887 (following the death of the sisters) Coates Hall (Easter Coates) became the Cathedral Choir School serving the then newly built St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral being remodelled by George Gilbert Scott and John Oldrid Scott, architects for the cathedral next door (which now dwarfs Coates Hall).Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker It is noteworthy that the Walker sisters chose to be buried next to John Byres in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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The grave of Rev Alexander Brunton and his wife Mary Balfour, Canongate Kirkyard Brunton started to write her first novel, Self-Control in 1809 and it was published in 1811. One admirer was Charlotte Barrett (1786–1870), niece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney and mother of the writer Julia Maitland. Writing to Sarah on 17 May 1811, she commented, "I read Self-Countroul & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death, but I think the principal character charming & well supported & the book really gives good lessons.".The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, ed. Lorna J. Clark (Athens, GA, and London: University of Georgia Press, 1997), pp. 130 and 133n.
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The current Lasswade Parish Church building was originally built in 1830 as a plain box chapelBuildings of Scotland: Lothian by Colin McWilliam for the former United Presbyterian Church (later United Free Church), it was remodelled by Hardy & Wight in 1894 and became part of the Church of Scotland in 1929. The parish has used this building since 1956, because of a structural fault in the Old Parish Church (subsequently demolished, built in 1793 from plans by John Clerk, Lord Eldin) discovered in the late 1940s. St Leonards Episcopal Church on Lower Broomieknowe dates from 1890 and is by Hippolyte Blanc. The former board school of 1875 stands with commanding views over the village on the northern slopes next to the Old Kirkyard.
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The 1690s were a time of extreme economic hardship and famine in Scotland, known as the seven ill years; in December 1696, the city of Edinburgh set up a refugee camp in Greyfriars kirkyard to house starving rural migrants.K. J. Cullen, Famine in Scotland: The “Ill Years” of the 1690s (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), , p. 160. This impacted the viability of small estates such as Fergushill and John was already under financial pressure when he purchased Kersland. Having become a leader among the extreme Covenanters, he made use of his influence to relieve his pecuniary embarrassments, selling his support at one time to the Jacobites, at another to the government, and whenever possible to both parties at the same time.
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The major exceptions to the standard pattern are in the work of James Smith, who had become a Jesuit in his youth. These included the rebuilding of Holyrood Abbey undertaken for James VII in 1687, which was outfitted in an elaborate style. In 1691 Smith designed the mausoleum of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in Greyfriars Kirkyard, a circular structure modelled on the Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio, designed by Donato Bramante (1444–1514). The Latin Cross form, increasingly popular in Counter Reformation Catholicism, was also used, as in Smith's Canongate Kirk (1688–90), but here it never saw episcopal service as the Presbyterian revolution of 1689–90 occurred before it was completed and the chancel was blocked up, making it, in effect, a T-plan.
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The Class II Kirkyard stone c. 800 AD from Aberlemno The conversion of the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata in the west of modern Scotland is traditionally attributed to the work of St. Columba. However, given the close cultural and linguistic ties, and the short distance across the seas, between the region and Ireland, which had begun to be Christianised from at least the fifth century, it is likely that Christianity had already reached this part of modern Scotland before his arrival in the mid-sixth century. In this view, the role of clergy owing their loyalty to Iona and elsewhere was to consolidate the position of Christianity in the region and beyond and to provide pastoral care for the people there.
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The pre- Reformation church, St Fillan's Chapel, whose kirkyard is the traditional burial place of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich, lies to the south of the River Earn, between St Fillans and the Iron Age Pictish hill fort of Dundurn. It is believed that the Irish missionary Saint Fillan lived on this hill. Not far from the foot of the hill is the Allt Ghoinean burn which is claimed to be the Gonan or Monan of Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake: :The stag at eve had drunk his fill, where danced the moon on Monan's rill. There is a large hydro-electric power station in St Fillans, fed from a dam at Loch Lednock high above the village.
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111, with a plate showing the decoration much better; Laing, 310 Aberlemno Kirkyard Stone, Class II Pictish stone Pictish art appears on stones, metalwork and small objects of stone and bone. It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo- Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues. The most conspicuous survivals are the many Pictish stones that are located all over Pictland, from Inverness to Lanarkshire. An illustrated catalogue of these stones was produced by J. Romilly Allen as part of The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, with lists of their symbols and patterns.
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James had a brother, Patrick Watson, also a printer, apprenticed to George Mosman, printer in Edinburgh. Patrick ended in court accused of stealing tools and type-face to pass to James in 1698. This was found not proven but continuation of the apprenticeship proved impossible and the sum paid for this to Mosman (£100) had to be repaid.Scottish Historical Review: April 1910 In 1700 an Alexander Watson, printer is noted, burying his child at Greyfriars Kirkyard, and may also be related. Watson’s son, again James Watson, attended the High School in Edinburgh and Edinburgh University and was then sent abroad to study printing (again probably Holland), however he died in his youth and did not follow in his father’s footsteps.
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This was a time of hardship and famine in Scotland, known as the Seven ill years; in December 1696, the city of Edinburgh set up a refugee camp in Greyfriars kirkyard to house starving rural migrants.K. J. Cullen, Famine in Scotland: The “Ill Years” of the 1690s (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), , p. 160. John was already under financial pressure in 1696 when he purchased Kersland, near Kilbirnie from his wife's elder sister, Jean Ker. He assumed the name and title of John Ker of Kersland and spent the next 30 years avoiding bankruptcy, including a period as a government spy. He sold Fergushill in 1718 to John Asgill and Robert Hackett for £3600, who mortgaged it back to him for £2,600; John died in 1726 in the King's Bench Debtors Prison, London.
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Neolithic cup and ring marked stones have been found in the area. Bronze Age archaeology has been found nearby, with a short cist burial found a mile to the south-east of the village, containing bones and a flint spearhead, and a bronze axehead found nearby.Jervise (1953); Jervise (1957); Coles (1971) The Brown Caterthun and the White Caterthun, hillforts dating from the Iron Age, can also be seen nearby. A number of Pictish symbol stones have been found in Menmuir, including a cross-slab and a sculptured stone found in the kirkyard around 1844 when an old wall was demolished,Allen and Anderson (1903); Cron (1843) three fragments, found in the grounds of the village Manse in 1943,Stevenson (1958) and another class III fragment reported in 1986.
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Bust of Monro primus in Old College, University of Edinburgh The grave of Alexander Monro primus, Greyfriars Kirkyard Alexander Monro primus (19 September 169710 July 1767) was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist. His father, the surgeon John Monro, had been a prime mover in the foundation of the Edinburgh Medical School and had arranged Alexander's education in the hope that his son might become the first Professor of Anatomy in the new university medical school. After medical studies in Edinburgh, London, Paris and Leiden, Alexander Monro returned to Edinburgh, and pursued a career as a surgeon and anatomy teacher. With the support of his father and the patronage of the Edinburgh Lord Provost George Drummond, Alexander Monro was appointed foundation Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Marykirk High Street after floods, November 2009 Marykirk Church Marykirk ancient kirk and kirkyard Marykirk () is a village in the Kincardine and Mearns area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, next to the border with Angus at the River North Esk. The village is approximately 6 miles ENE of Montrose at the southern end of the Howe of the Mearns. The road bridge carrying the A937 over the River North Esk is a substantial structure with four arches. It was designed by Robert Stevenson and completed in 1815 at the cost of £1,000 replacing the previous route to the village, an ancient ford. There is a rail bridge across the same river some 600 m north of the road bridge and the village once had a rail station to the north east.
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The earliest record of a church at Barry is from 1243 when the parish church was consecrated by David de Bernham, Bishop of St Andrews (1238–1252). The building that was Barry Parish Church up until the 1950s was built in 1800 on the site of an earlier building that was described as being "old and sorry". All that remains of Barry Parish Church now is the lower portion of its walls and its kirkyard. The first two churches within the town of Carnoustie were built in 1810 by two rival branches of the Secession Church, which had split from the Established Church in 1733 over the issue of patronage. The Anti- Burghers demolished the church they had built in 1789 near Grange of Barry Farm to rebuild it nearer the expanding village of Carnoustie.
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The grave of Adam Drummond of Binend, Greyfriars Kirkyard The Drummond family were staunch Hanoverians. In the 1745 Jacobite uprising the Jacobite army under Prince Charles Edwart Stuart defeated a Government army under the command of General Sir John Cope at the Battle of Prestonpans. Among the surgeons from Edinburgh who came to attend the wounded was Colin Simpson, one of Drummond’s apprentices, whose loyalty to the Government was such that he was entrusted to secretly deliver 400 guineas to Drummond’s nephew, Captain Adam Drummond, paymaster to the 47th Regiment of Foot, who had been captured after Prestonpans and was being held prisoner at Queensberry House in Edinburgh. Other surgeons who treated the wounded after the battle were Alexander Monro primus, Alexander Wood, John Rattray and George Lauder.
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14–18 Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Body snatching became so prevalent that it was not unusual for relatives and friends of someone who had just died to watch over the body until burial, and then to keep watch over the grave after burial, to stop it being violated. Iron coffins, too, were used frequently, or the graves were protected by a framework of iron bars called mortsafes, well-preserved examples of which may still be seen in Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh. Mort houses, such as the circular Udny Mort House in Aberdeenshire built in 1832, were also used to store bodies until decomposition, rendering the cadavers useless for medical dissection. One method the body snatchers used was to dig at the head end of a recent burial, digging with a wooden spade (quieter than metal).
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There was another hospital, St Peters, just outside the 16th-century settlement in Aberdeen. These houses acted as refuges for elderly men. In 1676, a Bailie of Old Aberdeen, William Logan, married Jean Moir of Stoneywood and as a senior member of the burgh they had built a town house on a plot of land on the East side of Don Street. The plot was based on an existing croft of 40 roods on the east side of Don Street leading from Old Aberdeen to the Brig O’ Balgownie. Don Street was the main artery north out of Aberdeen heading north past the St Peter’s hospital and Old Kirkyard along what is now called the Spital and past the Kings College of what is now the University of Aberdeen.
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It does not accommodate the descriptions in the Books of the Lymond Series of avenue of Trees, and surrounding hillsides- mention of the closeness to the major River do not appear. The Monks of Kelso and the Templars feature in the early history of Culter, many place, and farm names would enforce the latters presence. A more likely site of the Castle of Culter referred to fictionally in the books of Dorothy Dunnett would be Culter House (circa 1680) later of course than the date of the series but nonetheless the oldest inhabited house in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, with its attendant mile long avenue of trees, extant on Roys map of 1746/7, and mentioned in Buchan's John Burnet of Barns. One famous son would be James Gillray (1757-1815), a memorial to whom rests in the Kirkyard.
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The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland From late Medieval Scotland there is evidence of occasional prosecutions of individuals for causing harm through witchcraft, but these may have been declining in the first half of the sixteenth century. In the aftermath of the initial Reformation settlement, Parliament passed the Witchcraft Act 1563, similar to that passed in England one year earlier, which made witchcraft a capital crime. Despite the fact that Scotland probably had about one quarter of the population of England, it had three times the number of witchcraft prosecutions, at about 6,000 for the entire period.K. A. Edwards, "Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Scotland", in K. Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2010), , p. 32.
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Barry Mill At the far west end of the town is the village of Barry. On the north side of the road that runs through the village, to the west of the Barry Burn is the kirkyard and ruins of the old parish church. To the immediate east of this, a road heads north towards the old A92. Half a kilometre up this road, on the left hand side is the medieval motte associated with Grange of Barry, from where the monks of Balmerino Abbey managed the parish from the 13th century. On the other side of the road, a driveway runs towards the old Upper Mill, now simply known as 'Barry Mill', a water powered corn mill dating from 1815, when it was built on the site of a much older mill dating to the 16th century.
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The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland. In late medieval Scotland there is evidence of occasional prosecutions of individuals for causing harm through witchcraft, but these may have been declining in the first half of the sixteenth century. In the aftermath of the initial Reformation settlement, Parliament passed the Witchcraft Act 1563, similar to that passed in England one year earlier, which made witchcraft a capital crime. Despite the fact that Scotland probably had about one quarter of the population of England, it would have three times the number of witchcraft prosecutions, at about 6,000 for the entire period.K. A. Edwards, "Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Scotland", in K. Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2010), , p. 32.
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Medical block, Leith Hospital, Mill Lane The King Street Jubilee Wing of Leith Hospital, which housed the surgical block Leith Hospital Chapel Entrance to 40's extension of Leith Hospital Nurses Home, showing plaques engraved with the mottoes Prudence and Fortitude The King James Hospital, in the Kirkgate, which was named after King James VI, who awarded a charter to the hospital, was founded in 1614. The hospital was demolished in 1822, although part of the wall can still be seen today, forming the boundary between the Kirkgate and south Leith Kirkyard. In the late 18th century the Human Society, which promotes lifesaving intervention, established a presence in Leith, at first in Burgess Close and Bernard Street and then in Broad Wynd. In 1816, a dispensary was opened, also in Broad Wynd, at number 17, a few doors along from the Humane Society room.
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The memorial to Admiral Charles Douglas, Greyfriars Kirkyard Douglas was married three times: first to a Dutch woman called Uranie Lidie Marteilhe, with whom he had a son and a daughter; second to Sarah Wood of Yorkshire, the mother of Sir Howard Douglas; and third to a woman named Jane, daughter of John Baillie. There is a great deal of confusion regarding the identity of Sir Charles' third wife, whose last name has been variously reported as Baillie, Grew, and Brisbane. It appears that some sources have mistaken his sister, Helena Baillie, for his third wife because she raised his younger children while he was at sea. The name Helen Brisbaine is also an error based on a mistake in The Scottish Nation (1862) where it says she was married to Admiral Sir Charles Douglas when, in fact, she was the wife of Admiral Sir James Douglas.
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There are also vennels in the towns of Glenarm and Bangor in Northern Ireland, likely reflecting the Scottish influence in the eastern parts of the province of Ulster. For example, the old name for High Street in Comber was Cow Lane, an anglicisation of its Ulster Scots name Coo Vennel The city of Perth has lost many vennels with the gradual transformation of its medieval centre, but some have survived and are still used: Guard Vennel, Cow Vennel, Baxters Vennel, Fleshers Vennel, Oliphants Vennel, Water Vennel and Cutlog Vennel. The Vennel off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh appears in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) when Brodie takes her girls on a walk through the Old Town, ending up in Greyfriars Kirkyard. It was announced on 2 June 2018 that The Vennel steps have been renamed Miss Jean Brodie Steps to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of author Muriel Spark.
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The Danish involvement in the 'battle' centres entirely on an apparently common misinterpretation of Pictish archaeology. For example, Boece interprets the battle scene on the Kirkyard Stone at Aberlemno as being an account of another battle between the Scots and Danes, in the aftermath of the Battle of Barry: > Ane othir cumpany of Danis, fleand in the samin maner, war slane at > Abirlennon, not IV milis fra Brechin: quhare ane gret stane is ingravin with > crafty letteris, to advertis the passingeris of the anciant and illuster > dedis done be our eldaris aganis the Danis. This view was the norm for some time after Boece and is reflected in the Statistical Accounts for Aberlemno. It took until the mid-19th century for it to be pointed out that not only was there no evidence that the stones were Scandinavian in origin, there was also ample evidence that the stones were Pictish/Scottish in origin.
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This church was built as a replacement for an older church—built around 1220—the ruins of which are still visible in the village, in the middle of the old graveyard The graveyard has a number of interesting graves, mainly because of the strong links with Robert Burns, whose mother (Agnes Broun) came from this village. The poet also spent around 9 months in the village in 1776, when he was 17, and most of the characters in his poem "Tam o' Shanter" are based on local people whose graves are in the old kirkyard and are suitably marked. One noteworthy grave not linked to Burns work is that of Scipio Kennedy, a black African slave who was brought to Scotland in 1702 and lived on the Culzean estate, and given his freedom in 1725. The church, which is linked with Fisherton Parish Church, is without a minister since the retiral of Arrick Wilkinson at the beginning of February 2013.
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His bequest, of £166,000, in memory of his only son, was for the endowment of a school for orphaned or needy children, a tradition it still continues through the Fettes Foundation's scholarship and bursary programmes. Fettes' Mausoleum in the Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh His will declares: > "It is my intention that the residue of my whole estate should form an > endowment for the maintenance, education and outfit of young people whose > parents have either died without leaving sufficient funds for that purpose, > or who from innocent misfortune during their lives, are unable to give > suitable education to their children." After his death the bequest was effected and invested. His Trustees allowed the investments to accumulate for more than 25 years before they decided that with £166,000, there was enough capital with which to acquire the land, to found the school, and to fund scholarships. The main school building was designed by David Bryce, nearly 20 years after Fettes’ death, and it opened in 1870, 34 years after his death.
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In 1761 Ogilvie was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy in King's College, Aberdeen, and Regent"(A regent, from the Latin regens "reigning", is a person selected to act as head of state).... [but] [o]ccasionally, the term regent refers to positions lower than the ruler of a country.... [including] a management board for a college or university; this is commonly stated as: 'Board of Regents'" Wikipedia. in 1764. The following year he exchanged offices with the Professor of Humanity, which class he taught until he retired in 1817. Ogilvie appears to have lived a somewhat reclusive life, remaining unmarried and childless. He is buried in the south transept of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen, adjacent to his college: a discreet stone in the wall describes him as "William Ogilvie, Esquire of Pittensear, in the County of Moray, and Professor of Humanity in the University and King’s College, Aberdeen, who died on the 14th February 1819, aged 83 years".Kirkyard of St Machar’s Cathedral, visited and inscription read by Peter Gibb, August 1997.
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The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland Witch trials in early modern Scotland were the judicial proceedings in Scotland between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century concerned with crimes of witchcraft, part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe. In the late middle age there were a handful of prosecutions for harm done through witchcraft, but the passing of the Witchcraft Act 1563 made witchcraft, or consulting with witches, capital crimes. The first major issue of trials under the new act were the North Berwick witch trials, beginning in 1589, in which King James VI played a major part as "victim" and investigator. He became interested in witchcraft and published a defence of witch-hunting in the Daemonologie in 1597, but he appears to have become increasingly sceptical and eventually took steps to limit prosecutions. An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 people, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, were tried for witchcraft in this period, a much higher rate than for neighbouring England. There were major series of trials in 1590–91, 1597, 1628–31, 1649–50 and 1661–62.
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The following ephitaph to Moncrieff and his wife was erected on a monument and recorded before it faded at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Alas ! stay passenger, mourn and marvel The friend of God, Christ's faithful champion, the great ornament of the church, here lies Mr. Alexander Moncrieff, of honourable parentage, minister at Scoonie for the space of 18 years, a notable preacher, powerful in the scriptures, not seldom inspired with a spirit of prophecy; full of faith, hope, and charity, another Barnabas, another Boanerges, upright in life and pure from wickedness ; keeping fast to the reformed faith ; a stout maintainer of the most pure discipline; who, having suffered many things from the ire of prelates and fury of malignants, being thrust from his charge, shut up in prison; at length being set at freedom, he exercised, fulfilled and adorned the ministry committed to him by the Lord, in the worst of times, and, by a sweet triumph, drew rebellions souls unto Christ. At last, at the dawning of the day of liberty, he was removed into heavenly light, 6 October, the year of our Lord, 1688.
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When John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino was put on his trial on the capital charge of retaining in his possession a petition regarded as a libel on the king's government, Drummond in an energetic "Letter" (1635) urged the injustice and folly of the proceedings. About this time a claim by the earl of Menteith to the earldom of Strathearn, which was based on the assertion that Robert III, husband of Annabella Drummond, was illegitimate, roused the poet's pride of blood and prompted him to prepare an historical defence of his house. The burial vault of William Drummond of Hawthornden, Lasswade Kirkyard Plaque to William Drummond dating from the restoration of his vault in 1892 Partly to please his kinsman the earl of Perth, and partly to satisfy his own curiosity, the poet made researches in the genealogy of the family. This investigation was the real secret of Drummond's interest in Scottish history; and so we find that he now began his History of Scotland during the Reigns of the Five Jameses, a work which did not appear till 1655, and is remarkable only for its good literary style.
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