Warriston Cemetery looking down the south-west path to the war memorial

Warriston Cemetery is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

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. It lies in

Warriston Warriston ( ) is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies east of the Royal Botanic Garden in Inverleith. The name derives from Warriston House, a local mansion house demolished in 1966. In July 1600 John Kincaid, the Laird of ...

, one of the northern suburbs of

, Scotland. It was built by the then newly-formed Edinburgh Cemetery Company, and occupies around of land on a slightly sloping site. It contains many tens of thousands of graves, including notable Victorian and Edwardian figures, the most eminent being the physician Sir James Young Simpson. It is located on the north side of the

Water of Leith The Water of Leith (Scottish Gaelic: ''Uisge Lìte'') is the main river flowing near central Edinburgh, Scotland, and flows into the port of Leith where it flows into the sea via the Firth of Forth. Name The name ''Leith'' may be of Britt ...

, and has an impressive landscape; partly planned, partly unplanned due to recent neglect. It lies in the

Inverleith Inverleith (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Lìte'') is an inner suburb in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the fringes of the central region of the city. Its neighbours include Trinity to the north and the New Town to the south, with Canonmills ...

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and is also a designated Local Nature Conservation Site. The cemetery is protected as a Category A

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. In July 2013 the Friends of Warriston Cemetery was inaugurated to reveal the heritage and to encourage appropriate biodiversity. The address of the cemetery is 40C Warriston Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 5NE.

History

The Gothic memorial to Laura Eustace in Warriston Cemetery

The large Peddie monument, Warriston Cemetery

Group of Celtic crosses by McGlashen, Warriston Cemetery

Designed in 1842 by Edinburgh architect

David Cousin David Cousin (19 May 1809 – 14 August 1878) was a Scottish architect, landscape architect and planner, closely associated with early cemetery design and many prominent buildings in Edinburgh. From 1841 to 1872 he operated as Edinburgh’s ...

, the cemetery opened in 1843: the directors included Cousin and James Peddie (father of

John Dick Peddie John Dick Peddie (24 February 1824 – 12 March 1891) was a Scottish architect, businessman and a Liberal Party politician. Biography John Dick Peddie and his twin brother William were the second and third sons of James Peddie WS and Margaret D ...

). The first interment was towards the east, Margaret Parker, who was buried on 3 June 1843. It was the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh, allowing the simplistic original title of The Edinburgh Cemetery, and provided a model for several other Scottish cemeteries. In its own right it was broadly based on ideas first introduced at

Kensal Green Cemetery Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of Queens Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, it was founded by the barrister George Frederick ...

in London. Designed elements include a

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line of

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. Their length was doubled in 1862 by architect

. The chapel that once stood on top of the catacombs was demolished by 1930. Soon after instigation (in 1845) the cemetery was divided by the Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway which was built east to west through its southern half. A tunnel was added, with Gothic archways at its mouths, to link the north and south sections, but the south being smaller, was the inferior area from this date onwards. The embankments of the railway have been partly removed following its closure in the 1950s, and the line is now a public walkway. In 1929, the Edinburgh Cemetery Company expanded their business into the new field of cremation, converting East Warriston House (1818) into Warriston Crematorium on an adjacent site to the east. The architect was

Sir Robert Lorimer Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, KBE (4 November 1864 – 13 September 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of historic houses and castles, for new work in Scots Baronial and Gothi ...

, hence the title Lorimer Chapel for the main chapel. The crematorium was extended to the west in 1967 by the architect Esme Gordon. The cemetery lodge to the north-west dates from 1931 and was designed by architect J. R. McKay. The cemetery was in private ownership until 1994, when it was compulsorily purchased by the City of Edinburgh Council. The long task of restoring the heavily overgrown and vandalised cemetery has begun, but still has far to go. Currently, only the upper (westmost) section is maintained. Many sections are now so densely overgrown that the stones are no longer visible and are simply bumps in the green undergrowth. Arguably, the overgrown nature of the cemetery is its most attractive quality. There is something enchanting about wandering in amongst the head- and tomb-stones covered in ivy with a rich canopy of deciduous trees above, forming a natural mausoleum.

Monuments of architectural note

The Robertson mortuary chapel was erected in 1865 for Mary Ann Robertson (1826–1858), daughter of Brigadier-General Manson of the Bombay Artillery. The white marble shrine contained a sculpture of a reclining female figure, and was topped by a red glass roof, leading to the local nickname, the Tomb of the Red Lady. The monument was heavily vandalised and had to be demolished in the late 1980s. Sir

James Young Simpson Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. He was the first physician to demonstrate the anesthetic, anaesthetic properties of chloroform ...

's grave remains visible but the lower section has been infilled with earth to provide space for further burial. Several eminent sculptors' work is found in the cemetery, including a fine portrait of William Young, horticulturist (1816–1896) by

William Birnie Rhind William Birnie Rhind RSA (1853–1933) was a Scottish sculptor. Life Rhind was born in Edinburgh on 27 February 1853 as the first son of sculptor John Rhind (1828–1892), and his wife, Catherine Birnie. He was the elder brother of J. M ...

, a monument to Robert Bryson by

Thomas Stuart Burnett Thomas Stuart Burnett ARSA (4 July 1853 – 8 March 1888) was a Scottish sculptor in the 19th century. His two principal claims to fame is as one of the chosen sculptors of the figures depicting characters from the novels of Sir Walter S ...

, and a wealth of fine ornate Celtic crosses by the McGlashens. A sizeable arched pedestal to the Rev James Peddie (d. 1845) by John Dick Peddie is also of note.

Notable persons interred and cremated

Interred

Diplomat and wife's tombstones, Warriston Cemetery - geograph

* George Aikman (1830–1905) artist and engraver *

Joseph Anderson (antiquarian) Joseph Anderson LLD HRSA (1832–1916) was a Scottish antiquarian who served as keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland from 1869 to 1913. Life Anderson was born in Angus, the son of an agricultural labourer, grew up in ...

(1832–1916) keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities, and his son

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Robert Rowand Anderson Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, (5 April 1834 – 1 June 1921) was a Scottish Victorian architect. Anderson trained in the office of George Gilbert Scott in London before setting up his own practice in Edinburgh in 1860. During the 1860s his ...

(1834–1921) architect * George Angus (architect) (1798–1845) *

John Hutton Balfour John Hutton Balfour (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the University of Edinburgh and also becoming the 7th Regius Kee ...

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(1784–1874), publisher, Lord Provost and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh * Samuel Blackburn (1813–1856) portrait artist *

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(1844–1917), architect *

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(1847–1927) stained glass designer * Major General James Roper Boswall (1826–1883) *

John Crawford Brown John Crawford Brown ARSA (1805 – 8 May 1867) was a Scottish landscape painter. Life He was born in Glasgow and resided in London for some time after travelling in the Netherlands and Spain. He then returned to his native city, before settli ...

(1805–1867) landscape artist *

Sir William Slater Brown Sir William Slater Brown (1844–1917) was an early 20th century Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1909 to 1912. Life He was born in 1844 the second son of Henry Raeburn Brown (b.1806) a tailor, and his wife He ...

(1844-1917)

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1909-12 *

William Alexander Bryson William Alexander Bryson FRSE (2 March 1855 – 9 July 1906), was a Scottish electrical engineer. Life He was born on 2 March 1855, the son of Alexander Bryson a clockmaker with Robert Bryson & Son, and his wife Elizabeth Waterstone Gillespie. ...

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(d. 1906) creator of the public electric lighting system in

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in 1897 (one of the first in the world) - stone vandalised *

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(1862-1926) author (in the Marwick grave) * William Archibald Cadell

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James Cadenhead James Cadenhead (12 January 1858 – 22 January 1927) was a Scotland, Scottish landscape and portrait painter.

(1858–1927) artist * Dr Colin Cadman (1916–1971), plant pathologist and mycologist * Robert Macfarlane Cameron (1860–1920) architect *

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(1902–1991)

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recipient * Sir John Cheyne (1841–1907) *

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* James Scarth Combe (1795-1883) physician * Prof Arthur Connell (1794–1863),

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* John Cunningham (architect) (1799–1873) *

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(1863–1930), owner of the Currie Line * Commodore James Dalgleish (1891–1964) * Sir David Deas (1807–1876), naval physician, with his architect son,

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(1862–1951) *

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(1804–1887) * William H. Dowbiggin (1780–1848) veteran of the

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, son-in-law of

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* Sir David Dumbreck (1805–1876) memorial only * John Gillison Dunbar (1874–1958) creator of Dunbar's lemonade * General Alexander Duncan (1780-1859) *

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(1807–1845) * David Dundas, Lord Dundas (1854–1922) law lord * Robert William Dundas, MC, Legion of Honour, (1881–1928) military hero and solicitor, co-founder of

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* Elizabeth Marianne Erskine (1871–1942) early female surgeon *

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FRHA (1824–1901) botanist and author *

William Flockhart William Flockhart, L.R.C.S.E. (1808 – 1871) was a Scottish chemist, a pharmacist who provided chloroform to Doctor (later Sir) James Young Simpson for his anaesthesia experiment at 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh on 4 November 1847. This was the f ...

(1809–1871) chemist, joint founder of Duncan Flockhart & Co * Robert Gavin (1827–1883) artist * Robert Gibb (1845–1932), artist, most remembered for the painting ''The Thin Red Line'' and his elder brother William Gibb (1839-1929) *

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(1778–1863) Scottish-Canadian politician * Frederick Richard Graham-Yooll (died 1931) inventor *

Andrew Grant (MP) Andrew Grant (13 June 1830 – 23 October 1924) was a Scottish merchant and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885. Early life Grant was born in Cassell's Place, Leith Walk, Leith, the elder of the twin sons of Jes ...

(1830–1924) Liberal politician * Very Rev James Grant DD

(1800–1890) Director of

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1840 to 1890 and

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in 1854, father of above Andrew Grant * Prof

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(1889–1963) veterinarian and creator of "clean milk" * Sir Louis Stewart Gumley (1870–1941), Lord Provost of

1935–38 *

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(1814–1877) librarian and author * Sir George Harrison (1812–1885), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1882-5 * Sir George Harvey (1805–1876) artist. * David Ramsay Hay (1798–1866) artist and author * Alfred Trevor Haynes (1907–1969) President of the

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1962–64 * Alexander Henry (1818–1894), gunsmith, First Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer, JP and Edinburgh Town Councillor * James Howie (1845–1910) photographer *

John Howkins (civil engineer) John Howkins MICE (1839-1906) was a Scottish harbour engineer closely associated with Granton, Edinburgh. Life He was born in Granton, Edinburgh in September 1839 the son of John Howkins, civil engineer, (1807-1877) and his wife Mary Collier ...

(1840–1966) *

Edith Hughes (architect) Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes HonFRIAS (7 July 1888 – 28 August 1971) was a Scottish architect, and is considered Britain's first practising female architect, having established her own architecture firm in 1920. Early life Edith Mar ...

(1888–1971) Scotland's first female architect *

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(1810–1890) Scottish engineer linked to the early development of railways *

Robert Kirk Inches Sir Robert Kirk Inches (c. 1845 – 2 August 1918) was a Scottish goldsmith and silversmith. He co-founded the jewellerHamilton & Inchesand served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1912 to 1916. Early life He was born around 1845. He was the s ...

(1845-1918) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1912-16 (one of the few graves of interest in the south section) *

Cosmo Innes Cosmo Nelson Innes FRSE (9 September 1798 – 31 July 1874) was a Scottish advocate, judge, historian and antiquary. He served as Advocate-Depute, Sheriff of Elginshire, and Principal Clerk of Session. He was a skilled decipherer of ancien ...

(1798–1874) judge, author and antiquarian. A member of the

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one of the world's first photographic societies * Professor

Robert Jameson Robert Jameson Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John ...

(1774–1854), naturalist and mineralogist * Feliks Janiewicz (1762–1848), Polish composer and violinist in exile * James Jardine (1776–1858) civil engineer * Alexander Karley RN (1785-1859) Royal Navy Commander of ships such as HMS Apollo * Alexander Keiller (1811–1892), physician and obstetrician; introduced gynaecological teaching into the

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(1808–1879), English mathematician * John Falconer King FIC FCS (1846–1919) Edinburgh city analyst * Count Walerian Krasiński (1795–1855), Polish Calvinist politician, nationalist and historian *

Robert Scott Lauder Robert Scott Lauder (25 June 1803 – 21 April 1869) was a Scottish artist who described himself as a "historical painter". He was one of the original members of the Royal Scottish Academy. Life and work Lauder was born at Silvermills, E ...

(1803–1869), artist (monument by John Hutchison) *

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(1811–1869), artist, buried with his older brother Robert Scott Lauder * Rev Prof Alexander Lawson DD (1852–1921) professor of English Literature at

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(1818–1903) Tasmanian politician, nephew of John Learmonth * Charles Lees RSA (1800–1880) artist * John Allan Lindsay (1865–1942) the final Provost of

1917–1920 * Hilda Lockhart Lorimer (1873–1954) classical scholar, and her brother

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* Professor David Low (1786–1859), agriculturalist * William Henry Lowe MD (1815-1900) physician and botanist * Charles Somerville MacAlester (1797–1891) - grave vandalised * Horatio McCulloch (1806–1867), artist (monument by John Rhind) * Very Rev Robert MacDonald (1813-1893)

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of the Free Church of Scotland in 1882 *

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(1802–1880) law lord * Stewart McGlashan (1807–1873) sculptor * Alastair Macintyre (1913-1979) broadcaster * Gillian Maclaine (1798–1840) adventurer, memorial only - lost at sea with his family * Sir John Lorne MacLeod (1873–1946)

1916 to 1919 * The Very Rev

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DD (1831–1912)

in 1904 * Prof

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and

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(1852–1867) * Charles Hodge Mackie (1862-1920) artist * Sir Richard Mackie (1851–1923) Provost of

, 1899 to 1908 * Very Rev Thomas Main (1813-1881)

of the Free Church of Scotland * Sir

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(1826–1908) * Very Rev Alexander Martin DD LLD (1857–1946) Principal of

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* Frances Helen Melville (1873 – 1962) suffragist, academic *

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* Hugh Morton (1812–1878) civil engineer * Claud Muirhead (1835–1910) owner and editor of the

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* Charles Murray, Lord Murray (1866–1936) law lord, and his son, Keith Anderson Hope Murray (1903–1993) *

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(1800–1876) Scottish judge * Patrick Neill (naturalist) (1776–1851) * William Nicol (1770–1851), physicist and geologist *

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(1827–1893) scholar and mountaineer * Cpt John Orr (died 1879) who fought at Waterloo * John H. Oswald (1830–1899) landscape artist *

George Outram George Outram (25 March 1805 – 15 September 1856) was a humorous poet, Scottish advocate, friend of Professor John Wilson, and for some time editor of '' The Herald'' in Glasgow. Life Outram was born on 25 March 1805 the son of Elizabeth ...

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* Alexander Ramsay (1777–1847), architect * John Rhind (1828–1892), sculptor (also his sons

and Thomas Duncan Rhind in the same plot) * Dr William Robertson

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LLD (1833–1883) author * Theodore Salvesen (1863-1942) * John Sheriff (1816-1844) ARSA, artist - one of the first burials * John Siveright (1779–1856), of the Hudson's Bay Company * Sir

(1811–1870), pioneer of anaesthetics * John Smart (landscape artist) (1838–1899) * Alexander Smith (1829–1867), Scottish poet (monument carved by John Rhind) * John Smith (1825–1910), surgeon and dentist, FRSE, FRCS, founder of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital, Queen Victoria's dentist *

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(1824–1908) hymn-writer * John Stevenson (1790–1831)

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's "True Jock" * Prof

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(1854–1924) public health expert * Archibald Buchanan Stirling (1811-1881) conservator (south section) *

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Cremated

The crematorium is on a separate site, east of the main cemetery. It has several areas of remembrance, the oldest being the oak-panelled rooms in the basement. To the north, there is both a Rose Garden and Water Garden holding memorials. The Book of Remembrance is opened to the date each day, for those marking the anniversary of a death. A computerised version of the Book of Remembrance is also available, enabling other dates to be viewed. *

Alfred Adler Alfred Adler ( , ; 7 February 1870 – 28 May 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, family constellation and birth order ...

(1870–1937), Austrian psychotherapist and founder of the school of individual psychology. Moved April 2011 to Austria * Sapper Adam Archibald (1879–1957), Victoria Cross, VC recipient World War I * Captain Charles George Bonner (1884–1951), Royal Navy

recipient World War I.Burial Location VC holders Staffordshire (headstone in St Mary's Churchyard, Aldridge).
At time of writing he is not entered on the page for Edinburgh. * Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), Headmaster of Eton College, Eton and Fettes Colleges * Brigadier Arthur Edward Cumming (1896–1971), Victoria Cross, VC recipient, Malaya, World War II * Frederick Gardiner (radiologist)

(1874–1933), dermatologist and x-ray pioneer/martyr * Andrew Gilzean (1877–1957) MP * Tom Hart (businessman), Tom Hart (1922–1982) chairman of Hibernian Football Club *

(1868–1929), architect. One of the first cremations, his ashes are buried with his parents at Newburn, Fife. * Lieutenant David Lowe MacIntyre (1895–1967), Army Victoria Cross, VC recipient, World War I * Ebenezer James MacRae (1881–1951), City Architect for Edinburgh * Sir Frank Mears (1880–1953) architect and town planner * Don Revie (1927–1989), English footballer and manager * Captain Henry Peel Ritchie (1879–1958), Royal Navy Victoria Cross, VC recipient, East Africa, World War I * Drum-Major Walter Potter Ritchie (1892–1965), Victoria Cross, VC recipient, Battle of the Somme, World War I * Prof James Lorrain Smith (1862–1931) anatomist * Alexander Burns Wallace (1906-1974) Scottish plastic surgeon * Sir Charles Laing Warr (1892–1969), Minister of The High Church of St Giles, Edinburgh, and Dean of the Thistle and Chapel Royal Scotland (1926–1969)

War graves

Warriston Cemetery contains 100 graves of Commonwealth service personnel, 72 from World War I and 27 from World War II, besides a grave of a Belgian soldier. The cemetery also contains a Commonwealth War Graves Commission, CWGC memorial, at the end of the columbarium, in the form of panels listing 142 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II who were cremated here.

Botanical

Among trees of note in Warriston Cemetery are two Ulmus 'Purpurea', purple-leaved elms and a Ulmus glabra 'Concavaefolia', concave-leaved elm, both among the rarer of pre-Dutch Elm Disease cultivars.

References

External links

* Geographic coordinates:
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{{Cemeteries in Scotland Monuments and memorials in Scotland Cemeteries in Edinburgh Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Scotland 1843 establishments in Scotland