Dean Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

  • Sir Thomas Bouch, railway engineer, designer of the original Tay Rail Bridge
  • Isabella Burton (née Lauder), with children, wife and family of John Hill Burton, historian (monument by William Brodie (sculptor) 1881).
  • Samuel Butcher, professor of Greek at Edinburgh University, President of the British Academy, Liberal Unionist MP for Cambridge University
  • David Octavius Hill (1802-1870), artist and photography pioneer (famously part of the pair Hill & Adamson). The monument is by his second wife, Amelia Robertson Paton (1820-1904).
  • John Crabbie, founder of Crabbie's Green Ginger
  • Samuel Bough RSA, artist, (1822-1878). (monument by William Brodie (sculptor) 1879)
  • Andrew Inglis (d. 1875), M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Professor of Midwifery at Aberdeen University
  • Major General William John Gairdner, CB, (1789-1861) a very fine sculpture of his hat under a canopy, with his sword at the base.
  • Sir Hector MacDonald, (d.1903), Major General and distinguished Victorian soldier
  • William Henry Playfair (1790-1857), architect
  • Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd a huge red granite pyramid, designed by the adjacent Playfair
  • Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779-1854)
  • Lord Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850)
  • Lt John Irving of HMS Terror (1822-1848 or 49) who died in King William's Land as part of the Franklin Expedition searching for the North-West Passage and whose body was found some 30 years later and brougfht back to Edinburgh for burial (re-interred 7.11.1881).
  • Robert Hepburn Swinton of that Ilk (d.1852)
  • Sir Archibald Alison (d.1867), advocate and historian
  • James Nasmyth (1808-1890), inventor of the steam hammer. An impressive munument by John Rhind (sculptor).
  • Sir John Murray KGB (d.1914) leader of the Challenger Expedition to discover creatures of the deepest abysses of the sea (the inspiration for Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea").
  • A huge red granite obelisk to Andrew Russel, editor of The Scotsman (1814-1870).

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