The 'Lords' Row', Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

The large and ornate monument to James Leishman, Dean Cemetery

The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the

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, west of

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city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the

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

The cemetery

Dean Cemetery, originally known as Edinburgh Western Cemetery, was laid out by

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(an Edinburgh architect who also laid out

Warriston Cemetery Warriston Cemetery is a cemetery in Edinburgh. It lies in Warriston, one of the northern suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built by the then newly-formed Edinburgh Cemetery Company, and occupies around of land on a slightly sloping si ...

) in 1846 and was a fashionable burial ground for mainly the middle and upper-classes. The many monuments bear witness to Scottish achievement in peace and war, at home and abroad and are a rich source of Edinburgh and Victorian history. As the cemetery plots were quickly bought up the cemetery was extended on its north side in 1871. A second set of entrance gates were built on Dean Path, matching the original entrance. Although this section was originally only accessed through this gate the extension was quickly linked to the original section by creating gaps in the mutual wall where no graves existed. The separated section north of Ravelston Terrace (previously Edgehill Nursery) was purchased in 1877 in anticipation of a sales rate matching that of the original cemetery, but this was not to be, and the area only began to be used in 1909 (excepting

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(1898) alone for a decade). This section is relatively plain and generally unremarkable, but does include a line of Scottish Law Lords against the north wall, perhaps trying to echo the "Lord's Row" against the west wall of the original cemetery. Whilst numerically greater in its number of lords it is far less eye-catching. The entire cemetery is privately owned by the Dean Cemetery Trust Limited, making it one of the few cemeteries still run as it was intended to be run. The resultant layout, with its mature designed landscape, can be seen as an excellent example of a cemetery actually being visible in the form it was conceived to be seen. The southern access from Belford Road is now blocked and the entrance road here is now grassed and used for the interment of ashes. The cemetery contains sculpture by

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, John Hutchison,

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, Amelia Robertson Hill,

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 ...

, John Rhind, John Stevenson Rhind,

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, Charles McBride,

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, Walter Hubert Paton and Stewart McGlashan.

Dean House

The cemetery stands on the site of Dean House (built 1614), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616

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. The Nisbets of Dean held the office of Hereditary Poulterer to the King. The famous herald,

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, of

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, near Duns, Scottish Borders,

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, is said to have written his ''Systems of Heraldry'' in Dean House. The

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was demolished in 1845, and sculptured stones from it are incorporated into the south retaining wall supporting at the south side of the cemetery. This lower, hidden section also contains graves. John Swinton, Lord Swinton died in the house in 1799. Sir

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was born in Dean House in 1804.

Notable interments

Bust of David Octavius Hill, Dean Cemetery Edinburgh

Original cemetery

"N" denotes location in the first northern extension. "LR" denotes location in the Lords Row. -11WillThomson

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* Sir William Allan RSA (1782–1850) artist *

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(1833–1900) sculpted by

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* Thomas Anderson FLS (1832-1870) botanist *

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(1826–1911) ethnologist * Dr

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, personal surgeon of

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(1942–2013) artist * Dr

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(father (d.1873) and son (d.1896), a back-to-back monument by

) artists, decorators and designers * Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th

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(1813–1885) * Sir

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RSA, artist, (1822–1878) (monument by

1879) * Admiral

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(1806–1889) and his son Major General Hamilton St Clair Bower (1858–1940) (N) * Prof Francis Darby Boyd (1866–1922) Professor of Clinical Medicine at

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* Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997) sculptor * Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd (1818–1902), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1877–1882 (N) * Sir

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(1847–1921), brain surgeon *

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(1815–1881) * Agnes Henderson Brown (1866–1943) suffragette *

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FRS FRSE (1844–1925) oceanographer *

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(1853–1888) sculptor * Dr John Graham MacDonald Burt FRSE (1809–1868) President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh * Samuel Butcher (1850–1910), professor of Greek at

, President of the

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(N) *

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(1884–1967) and great nephew, comedy actor

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(1950–1996) star of Enemy at the Door and Hi-de-Hi * Prof

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(1853–1926) President of the

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1912–14 (N) * Edward and

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of the

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(1779–1854) *

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* Charles Alfred Cooper FRSE (1829–1916) editor of ''

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'' newspaper * Sir

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* Robert Cox MP (1845–1899) * Sir

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(1914–1945) *

Francis Chalmers Crawford Francis Chalmers Crawford FRSE (1851–1908) was a Scottish stockbroker of fame as an amateur botanist and ornithologist. ''Saxifraga crawfordii'' is named after him. He served as President of the Scottish Microscopical Society. He was an ...

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(1859–1931) * Prof

Daniel John Cunningham Daniel John Cunningham M.D., D.C.L., LL. D. F.R.S., F.R.S.E. F.R.A.I. (15 April 1850 – 23 July 1909) was a Scottish physician, zoologist, and anatomist, famous for ''Cunningham's Text-book of Anatomy'' and ''Cunningham's Manual of Pra ...

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and his namesake son Rev Prof A H Douglas (d.1902) author and Professor of Apologetic at Know College,

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FRSE DL (1814–1885)

1859–1862 * Sir

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(1822–1891) PRSA artist * Bishop John Dowden (1840–1910)

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* Thomas Drybrough (1820–1894) brewer * Finlay Dun (1795–1853) musician and composer *

John Duncan (surgeon) John Duncan FRSE LLD (1839-1899) was a Scottish surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889 to 1891. On his father's death in 1866 he took over as director of the major drug manufacturer Duncan Flockhart ...

FRSE (1839–1899) President of the

1889–91 * Henry Dunlop of Craigton (1799–1867)

Lord Provost of Glasgow The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Glasgow is the convener of the Glasgow City Council. Elected by the city councillors, the Lord Provost serves not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. The office is equiv ...

1837 to 1840 *

James Dunsmure Dr James Dunsmure FRSE FRCSEd (23 April 1814 – 15 October 1886) was a Scottish surgeon. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Life He was born at 33 George Street in Edinburgh on 23 April 1814 the son of S ...

FRSE (1814–1886) President of the

* William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn FRSE (1889–1964) psychiatrist * Dr James Duncan (1810–1866) and his son Dr John Duncan (1839–1899) *

James Faed James Faed (4 April 1821 – 23 September 1911) was one of three famous Scottish brother painters/artists. Early life James was the second son of the six children of James Faed, tenant of Barlay Mill, near Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, and Mary ...

(1821–1911) artist * Rev Valentine Faithfull (1820–1894), clergyman and cricketer * Sir

James Falshaw Sir James Falshaw, 1st Baronet JP, DL, FRSE (21 March 1810 – 14 June 1889), was a British railway engineer and politician. Life He was born in Leeds, of an "old yeoman family" and was the son of William Falshaw, wool merchant, and Hanna ...

(1810–1889) Lord Provost (N) * Vice Admiral Charles Fellowes (1823–1880) (N) *

James Haig Ferguson James Haig Ferguson LLD FRSE FRCPE FRCSEd (18 December 1862 – 2 May 1934) was a prominent Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1931 and was president of ...

FRSE (1863–1934) President of both the

and the

(N) * Richard Findlay (1943–2017) broadcaster and media magnate * Rev Robert Howie Fisher DD (1861–1934) minister and author, Chaplain to the King *

David Fleming, Lord Fleming David Pinkerton Fleming, Lord Fleming (11 February 1877 – 20 October 1944) was a Scottish politician and judge, rising to be Senator of the College of Justice. Life He was born in Rutherglen near Glasgow on 11 February 1877, the son of J ...

(1877–1944) military hero and law lord * James Simpson Fleming FRSE (1828–1899) * Prof

John Fleming (naturalist) John Fleming FRSE FRS FSA (10 January 1785 – 18 November 1857) was a Scottish Free Church minister, naturalist, zoologist and geologist. He named and described a number of species of molluscs. During his life he tried to reconcile theology ...

(1785–1857) * Prof Edward Forbes (1815–1854) naturalist * Prof James David Forbes (1809–1868) inventor of the seismometer * Sir Patrick Johnston Ford Baronet, MP (1880–1945) * James Forlong, Major-General James George Roche Forlong (1824–1904), soldier and engineer * Forrest baronets, Sir John Forrest, Baronet (1817–1883) with Sir William Forrest (1823–1894) and Sir James Forrest (1853–1899) * William Hope Fowler CVO, MB, ChB, FRCSE, MRCPE, FRSE (1876–1933) x-ray pioneer, victim of his own experiments (N) * Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser (1848–1919) * John Fraser (physician), Dr John Fraser FRSE (1844–1925) Commissioner of Lunacy in Scotland 1895–1910 * Patrick Fraser, Lord Fraser, Patrick Fraser, Lord Fraser (1817–1889) jurist * Patrick Neill Fraser, FRSE (d.1905), botanist (plus a memorial to his daughter Margaret Neill Fraser, buried in Serbia during the First World War) * Thomas Richard Fraser (1841–1920), pathologist (N) * Sir William Fraser (historian) (1816–1898) *

(1865–1928) artist * George Alexander Gibson (1854–1913), doctor and amateur geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Chief Physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (N) * Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet, (1849–1912) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906–1909, MP for Edinburgh 1909–1912 * James Young Gibson (1826–1886) author/translator (bronze by

) plus his wife Agnes and Margaret Smith, Margaret Dunlop Smith (1843–1920) also an author * John Goodsir (1814–1867) anatomist * Robert Anstruther Goodsir (1823–1899) doctor and Arctic explorer * Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn (1814–1879) * Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet (1826–1884) educationalist and Principal of

* John Peter Grant (MP) (1774–1848) * Grant baronets, Sir Ludovic Grant 11th Baronet of Dalvey (1862–1836) * Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866) botanist * Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (1849–1920), Senator of the College of Justice * William Guy (dentist), William Guy FRSE (1860–1950), pioneer of modern dentistry * Daniel Rutherford Haldane FRSE PRCPE (1824–1887) * James Burton (Egyptologist), James Haliburton (1788–1862) Egyptologist * Lord Belhaven and Stenton, James Hamilton, 9th Baron Belhaven and Stenton (1822–1893) monument including a bronze by

* Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside (1798–1858) * Joseph James Hargrave (1841-1894) of the Hudsons Bay Company * John Harrison (historian), John Harrison FRSE CBE LLD (1847–1922) master tailor and author, son of George Harrison (Lord Provost), Sir George Harrison MP * Hay baronets, Lewis John Erroll Hay. 9th Baronet of Park (1866–1923) (N) * Andrew Fergus Hewat FRSE (1884–1957) * David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), artist and photography pioneer, Hill & Adamson. The monument is by his second wife, Amelia Robertson Hill (née Paton) (1820–1904) who is buried with him * Sir James Hodsdon (1858–1928), surgeon, President of the

1914–1917 * Franklin Hudson (1864–1918) American-born osteopath (N) * Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936) artist (pair of sculpted heads by John Stevenson Rhind) * Hutchison baronets, Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866–1925) Lord Provost of

1921–1923 * Elsie Inglis (1864–1917) pioneer female doctor and war hero (N) * Alexander Taylor Innes FRSE LLD (1833–1912) lawyer and historian * John Irving (Royal Navy officer), John Irving (1822–1848 or 49), lieutenant aboard , part of the Franklin's lost expedition, Franklin Expedition searching for the Northwest Passage; his body was found on King William Island (in modern-day Nunavut, Canada) 30 years later and re-interred at Dean Cemetery, 7 November 1881 (monument is carved by Stewart McGlashan) * Sir William Allan Jamieson (1839–1916) surgeon and medical author, President of the

1908–1910 * Lord Francis Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) (LR) * Jenners, Charles Jenner FRSE (1810–1893) founder of Jenners Department Store on Princes Street * Henry Johnston, Lord Johnston (1844–1931) Senator of the College of Justice (N) * Sir William Campbell Johnston FRSE LLD (1860–1938) advocate and cricketer (N) * Artur Jurand (1914–2000) Polish born geneticist (N) * Frederick Charles Kennedy CIE (1849–1916) Director of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and involved in the Third Anglo-Burmese War (N) * Helen Kerr LLD (1859–1940) social reformer * Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig (1926–2015) * Baron Kinnear (1833–1917) * Charles Kinnear, architect (1830–1894) of the firm John Dick Peddie, Peddie & Kinnear creators of Cockburn Street, Edinburgh etc. (N) * All four Baron Kinross spanning almost two centuries (LR) * John Watson Laidlay FRSE (1808–1885) coin collector and orientalist * William Law (Lord Provost) (1799–1878)

from 1869 70 1872 * Right Hon Robert Lee, Lord Lee FRSE (1830–1890), Senator of the College of Justice (N) * Rev Cameron Lees (1835–1913) * James Leslie (engineer) FRSE (1801–1889) and his son Alexander Leslie (engineer) * John Lessels (1808–1883) City architect (N) * David Lind (1797–1856), builder of the Scott Monument * Dr William Lauder Lindsay FRSE FLS (1829–1880) physician and botanist * Prof Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn (1826–1914) public health promoter, forensic science pioneer, plus his son, Henry Littlejohn (surgeon born 1826)#Henry Harvey Littlejohn, Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862–1927) forensic scientist, Edinburgh's first Police Surgeon. * John Gordon Lorimer (civil servant) (1870–1916) memorial only * George MacRitchie Low FRSE Faculty of Actuaries, FFA (1849–1922), President of the Faculty of Actuaries (N) * Flora Macaulay (1859-1958) newspaper editor (N) * Charles McBride (1851–1903) sculptor (bronze head by

) (N) * John MacGregor McCandlish WS FRSE (1821–1901) first President of the Faculty of Actuaries * Dr John McCosh (1801–1881) early photographer (memorial only) (N) * Sir Hector MacDonald, (d.1903), Major General, "The Fighting Mac" (bronze by

) (N) * Rev Prof Patrick Campbell MacDougall (1806–1867) Professor of Moral Philosophy * McEwan's, John McEwan (1832–1875) part of the brewing family * Very Rev Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851–1916) * Donald Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen (1945–2008) Senator of the College of Justice * Dr John Lisle Hall MacFarlane (1851–1874), physician and Scotland rugby international (medallion by Sir John Steell) * MacGibbon and Ross, David MacGibbon (1831–1902) architect and architectural historian, partner in MacGibbon and Ross (N) * Archibald Donald Mackenzie, (1914-1944), 'Captain Mack', officer of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders and later of the Brigata Stella Rossa, commemorated annually on Liberation Day (Italy) * Thomas Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (1807–1869) Senator of the College of Justice * Very Rev Dugald Mackichan (1851–1932) * Andrew Douglas Maclagan FRSE (1817–1900), physician and toxicologist, and his son Robert Craig Maclagan * David Maclagan FRSE (1785–1865) military surgeon, surgeon to

in Scotland * Norman Macleod (moderator), Very Rev Norman Macleod Doctor of Divinity, DD (1838–1911) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1900 (N) * Donald Mackenzie (advocate), Donald Mackenzie (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie * Rev Hugh MacMillan FRSE (1833–1903) (N) * Sir Daniel Macnee RSA (1806–1882) artist and President of the Royal Scottish Academy (N) * Rev Dr James Calder Macphail DD (1821–1908) Free Church minister and pioneer photographer (N) * McVitie's, Robert McVitie (1854-1910) biscuit maker, creator of the digestive biscuit (N) (memorial only) * James Maidment (1793–1879) antiquarian (N) * David Duncan Main (1856–1934) medical missionary * Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple (1803–1870) * Dr Robert Bowes Malcolm FRSE (1807–1894) British obstetrician * Henry Marshall (physician), Henry Marshall FRSE (1775–1851) physician and medical statistician * Very Rev Theodore Marshall DD (1846–1939), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1908 (N) * Robert Matheson (architect) (1808–1877) * John Miller (engineer), John Miller (1805–1883) half of the partnership Grainger & Miller, railway and dock engineers * Very Rev John Harry Miller (1869–1940) (N) * James Mitchell (Scottish minister), Very Rev James Mitchell DD (1830–1911) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1901 * Rev John Murray Mitchell (missionary), John Murray Mitchell (1815–1904) missionary and orientalist (N) * Very Rev Reginald Mitchell-Innes (1848–1930) * Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet (1816–1918) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1897–1900 * Alexander Monro (tertius) (1773–1859) physician of the Monro dynasty (LR) * James Montgomery (priest), James Francis Montgomery (1818–1897) first Dean of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal), St Marys Episcopal Cathedral * Charles Morehead (physician), Dr Charles Morehead (1807-1882) * William Ambrose Morehead (1805–1863) governor of Madras * Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928) artist * William Muir (divine), Rev Dr William Muir (1787–1869) Scottish divine and theological author. Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1838 (bronze head by

) * James Muirhead (scholar), James Muirhead (1830-1889) Professor of Civil Law at

* David Mure, Lord Mure (1810–1891) law lord * Sir John Murray (oceanographer) KCB (d.1914) leader of the Challenger Expedition (N) * Robert Milne Murray (1855–1904) gynaecologist * James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of the steam hammer, monument by John Rhind (N) * Robert Nasmyth FRSE (1792–1870) dentist to

* Dr Thomas Goodall Nasmyth FRSE (1855–1937) Medical Officer of Health to Fife, medical author (N) * Patrick Newbigging FRSE PRSSA (1813–1864) * Robert Nisbet (minister), Rev Dr Robert Nisbet (1814–1874) * Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand (1884–1962) (N) * Brownlow North (evangelist) (1810–1875) * Very Rev James Nicoll Ogilvie DD (1860–1928) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1918. * Emily Murray Paterson RSW (1855–1934), artist * James Paterson (painter), James Paterson RSA (1854–1932) artist * Sir James Balfour Paul (1846–1931) (N) * Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson (1843–1910) law lord * John More Dick Peddie (1853–1921) architect (N) * Samuel Peploe (1871–1935) artist * Arthur Perigal RSA (1784–1847) artist * Alexander Mactier Pirrie (1882–1907) anthropologist (N) * William Henry Playfair (1790–1857), architect * John Pringle (British Army officer), Major General John Pringle (1774–1861) * Olive Rae (1878-1933), operatic soprano * Rev Robert Rainy (1820–1906) and his son Adam Rolland Rainy MP * Prof Sir John Rankine (1846–1922) professor of Scots Law and legal author (N) * Robert Reid (architect) (1774–1856) architect of much of the New Town, Edinburgh, New Town * Robert Carstairs Reid (1845–1894) civil engineer * John Riddell (genealogist) (1785–1862) * George Ritchie (moderator), Very Rev Dr George Ritchie (1808-1888) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1870 * John Ritchie (newspaper owner), John Ritchie (1778–1870) and

(1824–1898) newspaper tycoons * Dr Robert Peel Ritchie FRSE (1835–1902) medical historian * Joseph Robertson (historian), Joseph Robertson (1810–1866), antiquarian * Alexander Ignatius Roche (1861–1921) artist * Prof Henry Darwin Rogers (1808–1866) US-born geologist * A huge red granite obelisk to Alexander Russel, editor of

(1814–1870) (N) * Alexander James Russell FRSE CS (1814–1887) lawyer * Sir James Russell (Scottish politician), James Russell (1846–1918) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1891–1894 * Very Rev James Curdie Russell Doctor of Divinity, DD VD (1830–1925) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1902 (N) * Prof William Russell (physician) (1852–1940) discoverer of Russell bodies * Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd (1791–1852), designed by the adjacent Playfair * Prof William Rutherford Sanders FRSE (1828–1881) pathologist * Archibald Scott (moderator), Very Rev Dr Arcibald Scott DD (1837-1909) Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1896 * David Scott (painter) (1807-1849) * Andrew Edward Scougal FRSE LLD (1846–1916) chief inspector of schools * William Seller FRSE (1798–1869) physician and botanist * Patrick Shaw (legal writer) (1796–1872) * Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth (1796–1885) politician * Brigadier General Offley Shore (1863–1922) * Sir Henry Simson, Henry John Forbes Simson (1872–1932) the obstetrician who delivered Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret (N) * John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925) * Basil Skinner (1923–1995) historian and campaigner for architectural conservation * Robert T. Skinner FRSE (1867–1946) historian and teacher * Prof George Gregory Smith (1865–1932) * John Smith (physician), Dr John Smith (1800–1879) President of the

* Robert MacKay Smith FRSE (1802–1888) meteorologist and philanthropist * Dr John W. L. Spence (1870–1930) x-ray pioneer and martyr to radiology * Sir James Steel (1830–1904)

(bust by John Stevenson Rhind) (N) * David Stevenson (engineer), David Stevenson (1815–1886), his son Charles Alexander Stevenson (1855–1950) (N) and grandson D. Alan Stevenson (1891–1971) (N), lighthouse engineers * Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) social reformer *Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) women's university education, women's suffrage * James Stevenson (merchant) FRSE (1786–1866) Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley cotton manufacturer * John James Stevenson (1831–1908) architect, son of above * Rev Robert Horne Stevenson DD (1812–1816) * John Stewart of Nateby Hall FRSE (1813–1867) naturalist * Prof Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart (1837–1900) and his daughter Agnes Grainger Stewart * William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge (1925–2012) * James Stirling (1800–1876) railway engineer and his wife, the author Susan Stirling * William James Stuart (1873–1958) President of the

1937 to 1939 (N) * Gabriel Surenne FSA (1777–1858) historian * Lt Gen Thomas Robert Swinburne British army officer and artist * George Swinton (botanist) FRSE (1780–1854) Chief Secretary of the Government in India * Major General Sir John Munro Sym (1839–1919) * Francis Darby Syme (1818–1871) trader in China involved in the coolie riots of 1852 * John Tait (architect), John Tait (1787–1856) architect * The Charles William Gray Taylor, Very Rev C W G Taylor CBE DD (d.1950) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1942 * Robert Tennent FRSE (1813–1890), pioneer photographer and his younger brother Hugh Lyon Tennent (1817–1874) (N) * D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1947) biologist * Prof Allen Thomson FRS FRSE (1809–1884) * Andrew Thomson (minister), Rev Dr Andrew Thomson DD (1814–1901) minister and religious author (N) * Lt Col Frank Wyville Thomson FRSE (1860–1918) public health expert in India * Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet MP (1875–1935) and Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet MP (1905––1972) politician father and son * Henry Alexis Thomson (1863–1924) Professor of Surgery * Robert William Thomson (1822–1873) engineer and inventor of the pneumatic tyre * Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768–1852) * William Thomson (physician), Prof William Thomson (1802–1852), medical author, professor of medicine at the University of Glasgow * Sir William Turner (anatomist) (1852–1916) and his son Arthur Logan Turner (1865–1939) (N) * Dr Charles Edward Underhill FRSE (1856–1917) surgeon * William Veitch LLD (1794–1885) classical scholar * Major General James Conway Victor (1792-1864) military engineer * John Waddell (engineer), John Waddell (1828–1888) railway engineer * Norman Walker (dermatologist), Sir Norman Walker (1862–1942), dermatologist * Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922) artist * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1892–1895, Thomas Drummond Wanliss (1830–1923) Australian politician * Sir Patrick Heron Watson (1831–1907) Crimean War surgeon, Surgeon to the King (Scotland), first President of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital Aeneas Francon Williams and Clara Anne Rendall, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

Aeneas Francon Williams and Clara Anne Rendall, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

* William Watson, Baron Watson (1827–1899) law lord * Joseph Laing Waugh (1868–1928) author (medallion by

) * Rev Dr Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) (N) * David Wilkie (surgeon), Sir David Wilkie (1882–1938) surgeon and philanthropist * Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet (1809–1883) * Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971) Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary, Chaplain, Writer and Poet, and his wife Aeneas Francon Williams, Clara Anne Rendall, missionary, teacher and artist. * Wallace Williamson, Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856–1926) * John Wilson (singer), John Wilson (1800–1849) Scottish vocalist * Prof John Wilson (Scottish writer), John Wilson (1785–1854) author under the name of "Christopher North (writer), Christopher North" and his brother James Wilson (zoologist), James Wilson (1795–1856) a zoologist * Dr Jenny Wormald (1942–2015) historian

Southern Terrace

* Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour (1856–1927) pioneer of gynaecology * Sir George Andreas Berry MP (1853–1940) eye surgeon * Benjamin Blyth II, Benjamin Hall Blyth (1849–1917) civil engineer * Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922) chemist * Memorial to George Brown (Canadian politician) (1819–1880) plus the grave of Anne Nelson, his wife (1823–1906) * Thomas Graham Brown (1882–1965) mountaineer and physiologist * Duncan Cameron (Scottish inventor), Duncan Cameron, (1825–1901), owner of ''The Oban Times'' newspaper and inventor of The "''Waverley''" nib (pen), nib pen and his daughter, Mary Cameron (painter) (1865–1921) * Robert Carfrae FSAScot (1820–1900) antiquarian * Thomas Clouston (1840–1915) psychiatrist * Francis Brodie Imlach (1819–1891) pioneer of dentistry and anaesthesia * Rev Dr Robert Reid Kalley (1809–1888) missionary * Peter McBride (physician), Dr Peter McBride FRSE (1854–1946) physician * William Mackintosh, Lord Kyllachy FRSE (1842–1918) Senator of the College of Justice * Rev Angus Makellar (d.1859) Moderator of the Church of Scotland for 1840 * Sir William Muir (1819–1905) Scottish Orientalist * Samuel Alexander Pagan (1793–1867) President of the

1846 to 1848 * Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) artist * Victor Noel-Paton, Baron Ferrier (1900–1992) * Sir John Skelton (1831–1897) and his wife Dame Jane Adair Skelton (1847–1925) * David Wallace (surgeon), Sir David Wallace (1862–1952) urologist * Alexander Wood (physician), Dr Alexander Wood (1817–1884) inventor of the hypodermic syringe

20th century extension

* Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson (18621–1936) Senator of the College of Justice * John George Bartholomew map-maker (memorial only) * Walter Lorrain Brodie (1884–1918), Victoria Cross winner (memorial only) * Andrew Constable, Lord Constable (1865–1928) * William Skeoch Cumming (1864–1929) artist * Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (1860–1917) * Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Charles Scott Dickson, Lord Dickson (1850–1922) * Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (1866–1930) newspaper magnate * Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher (1929–1989) MP 1973 to 1987 * John Alexander Ford (1864-1925) artist * Very Rev James Rae Forgan (1876–1966) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1940 * Margaret Neill Fraser (1880–1915) lady golfer and heroine of the First World War memorialised on grave of Patrick Neill Fraser FRSE (buried in Serbia where she died) * John George Govan (1861–1927) founder of the Faith Mission * Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866–1960) * Rev Andrew Harper DD (1844–1936) * John Robertson Henderson FRSE (1863–1925) zoologist * Lady Caroline and Lord Walter James Hore, Baron Ruthven of Gowrie (1838–1921) * George Hutchison (Unionist MP) (1873–1928) * John Alexander Inglis (1873–1941) historian and author * Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (1880–1937) architect * George Auldjo Jamieson (1827–1900) accountant and company director * David Smiles Jerdan FRSE (1871–1951) businessman and horticulturalist * Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (1857–1934) law lord and politician * Stewart Kaye (1886–1952) architect * Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE (1928–2015) physiologist * George Macdonald (archaeologist), Sir George Macdonald (1862–1940) archaeologist * Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher MP (1929–1989) * Father John Maitland Moir (1924-2013) priest * Alexander Munro MacRobert (1873–1930) MP and Lord Advocate * Sir Walter Mercer (1890–1971) surgeon * George F. Merson FRSE (1866–1959) pharmacist * Thomas Brash Morison (1868–1945) Senator of the College of Justice * Robert Muir (pathologist), Sir Robert Muir FRS (1864–1959) pathologist, and his sister, Anne Davidson Muir RSW (1875–1951) artist * Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927) economist * Ella Pirrie (1857-1929) friend and colleague of Florence Nightingale, first head nurse of Belfast City Hospital and first superintendent of the Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh * Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (1857–1942) (bronze by

) including the grave of his father-in-law, John Trayner, Lord Trayner * David Scott-Barrett, Sir David William Scott-Barrett (1922–2003) * Alistair Smart (1922–1992) art historian * Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975) poet and artist * Lewis Spence (1874–1955) journalist, author and poet * Douglas Strachan HRSA (1875–1950) stained glass window designer * Henry Wade (surgeon), Sir Henry Wade (1876–1955) surgeon * Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson (1869–1948)

1929 to 1932

Other monuments of interest

* Monument to John George Bartholomew, map-maker (buried in Portugal) on the north wall of the 20th century cemetery extension (sculpted by

) * Monument to Robert Dunsmure and his brothers, all of whom died abroad * Monument to Col Lauderdale Maule and the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders marking their role in the

at Alma River (Ukraine), Alma and Sevastopol. The rear of the monument commemorates their part in the Indian Mutiny at Lucknow * Monument to the Edinburgh-born Confederate Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, Colonel Robert A. Smith who died in 1862 at Munfordsville, Kentucky in the American Civil War * Monument to historian John Hill Burton, who is buried at Dalmeny. Monument in Dean is by

* Monument to John Wilson (singer), John Wilson (1800–1849), vocalist (buried in Quebec), also subject of a memorial at the foot of Calton Hill * The Cemetery contains the war graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 from World War I and 10 from World War II, registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The oldest soldier buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym KCB (1839 – 3 October 1919) aged 80 (this is a normal grave not a CWGC grave). Most of the war graves lie in the independently accessed 20th century section to the north of the main cemetery. * Robert Digby-Jones Victoria Cross, VC is memorialised on his parents' grave in the north extension. * Monument to the orphans dying at the immediately adjacent Dean Gallery, Dean Orphanage

References

External links

Official website

Bibliography

* ''The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh'' edited by A. S. Cowper and Euan S. McIver, Edinburgh, 1992. . {{Cemeteries in Scotland Burials at the Dean Cemetery, Cemeteries in Edinburgh Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh Tourist attractions in Edinburgh Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Scotland 1846 establishments in Scotland