The Edinburgh Graveyard Guide
Edition: Revised and Updated Ed edition
Publisher: Scottish Cultural Press and Children's Press      Web: http://www.scottishbooks.com/         Email: info@scottishbooks.com
Published: April 14, 2006
Place of publication: Unit 6,  Newbattle Abbey Business Park,  Newbattle Road, DALKEITH, Newbattle, Midlothian EH22 3LJ  Scotland
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781898218166
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Scotland
Genres: 'Black' Tourism
First sentence: EDINBURGH GRAVEYARDS Graveyards are a fascinating gateway into the extraordinarily rich lives of the men and women who have found themselves, by accident or design, in the capital city of Scotland.

'The Edinburgh Graveyard Guide' is a 'Black' Tourism classic. Watch out for 'The Glasgow Graveyard Guide' soon to appear!
Description: 'The Edinburgh Graveyard Guide' is designed to fit into the pocket of those who take the time to visit the extraordinary graveyards of Edinburgh.
Notes: INDEX of Burials of Eminent Men and Women      - 

Adam, Alexander (Buccleuch) headmaster 162
Adam, William (Greyfriars) architect 34
Allan, David (Old Calton) painter 108
Anstruther, Robert (Dean) explorer 124
Appleton, Edward (Morningside) physicist 209
Argyll, Marquess of (St Giles) Covenanter 58
Balfour, David Ian (Colinton) naval officer 171
Balfour, Lewis (Colinton) minister 171
Ballantyne, James (Canongate) printer 82
Bannatyne, Thomas (Greyfriars) merchant 45
Bell, Joseph (Dean) surgeon 130
Black, Adam (Warriston) publisher 190
Black, Joseph (Greyfriars) chemist 31
Blackwood, William (Old Calton) publisher 112
Bobby, Greyfriars (Greyfriars) police dog 53
Bothwell, Adam (Holyrood) bishop 89
Bough, Sam (Dean) painter 124
Brodie, William (Buccleuch) burglar 162
Brunton, Mary (Canongate) novelist 78
Bryce, David (New Calton) architect 117
Buchanan, George (Greyfriars) Reformer 41
Burnett, Eliza (Greyfriars) society beauty 33
Burnett, James [Lord Mondobbo] (Greyfriars) Law lord 32
Campbell, Archibald (St Giles) Marquess of Argyll 58
Carstares, William (Greyfriars) University principal 38
Cauvin, Louis (Restalrig) teacher 214
Chalmers, George (Canongate) plumber 74
Chalmers, Thomas (Grange) minister 173
Chambers, Robert (Dean) publisher 125
Chantrelle, Elizabeth Cullen (Grange) murder victim 181
Chepman, Walter (St Giles) printer 61
Chieslie, John (Greyfriars) murderer 37
Coach-drivers, Society of (Canongate) 77
Cockburn, Henry (Dean) historian 127
Constable, Archibald (Old Calton) publisher 112
Craig, James (Greyfriars) architect 48
Craig, William Lord (Canongate) Law lord 83
Creech, William (Greyfriars) publisher 40
Cruickshank, William (Old Calton) schoolmaster 113
Dalrymple, James (St Giles) Viscount Stair 60
Darnley, Lord (Holyrood) 95
Darwin, Charles (Buccleuch) student 160
David II (Holyrood) king 90
Davies, Captain (Piershill) dog 199
De Quincey, Thomas (St Cuthbert’s) writer 154
Dick, William (New Calton) vet 118
Dog Cemetery (Edinburgh Castle) 9
Douglas, James (Holyrood) 89
Douglas, James [Earl of Morton] (Greyfriars) Regent 46
Downer, Alfred R. (Morningside) athlete 212
Drummond, George (Canongate) Lord Provost 70
Duff, William (Old Calton) soldier 110
Duncan, Andrew (Buccleuch) doctor 159
Ewart, Ensign (Edinburgh Castle) 12
Ferguson, Robert (Old Calton) soldier
Fergusson, Robert (Canongate) poet 76
Ferrier, Susan (St Cuthbert’s) novelist 157
Fettes, William (Canongate) merchant 82
Forbes, Duncan (Greyfriars) Law Lord 23
Forbes, John Stuart (St John’s) American soldier 141
Fraser, Alexander (New Calton) vice admiral 117
Fraser, Thomas (New Calton) vice admiral 117
Ged, William (Greyfriars) designer 54
Gibson, William (Old Calton) coach superintendent 108
Gillespie, James (Colinton) philanthropist 169
Gilmore, Samuel (St Cuthbert’s) ropemaker 153
Gow, Nathaniel (Greyfriars) musician 39
Gow, Neil jr (Greyfriars) musician 39
Graham, John (Greyfriars) Marquess of Montrose 63
Grant, Mrs Anne (St Cuthbert’s) author 145
Gray, John (Greyfriars) policeman 52
Gray, John (Mount Vernon) priest 206
Gray, Thomas (Old Calton) carpenter 104
Gregorowicz, Andreas (New Calton) doctor 118
Gregory, James (Canongate) doctor 74
Gregory, James (Greyfriars) astronomer 54
Greyfriars Bobby (Greyfriars) dog 53
Gueldres, Mary of (Holyrood) queen 92
Guthrie, Thomas (Grange) doctor 178
Herd, David (Buccleuch) song-collector 161
Highlanders, 79th (Dean) soldiers 125
Hill, David O. (Dean) photographer 123
Holmes, Robert (Old Calton) merchant 108
Hope, John (Greyfriars) botanist 45
Hume, David (Old Calton) philosopher 108
Hutton, James (Greyfriars) geologist 29
Inglis, Elsie (Dean) surgeon 130
Irving, John (Dean) naval officer 129
James II (Holyrood) king 92
James V (Holyrood) king 3
Jameson, Robert (St Cuthbert’s) lawyer 147
Jamesone, George (Greyfriars) painter 54
Jamieson, John (St Cuthbert’s) lexicographer 147
Jeffrey, Francis (Dean) lawyer 128
Johnston, Suphy (Buccleuch) tom-boy 167
Kay, John (Greyfriars) caricaturist 54
Kemp, George Meikle (St Cuthbert’s) architect 148
Kennedy, David (Grange) singer 179
Kennedy-Fraser, Marjorie (Grange) song-collector 180
Knox, John (Greyfriars) Reformer 66
Lafayette, the Great [see Neuburger] 193
Lampe, Johann Frederick (Canongate) musician 80
Leishman, John (Dean) lawyer 126
Leslie, Thomas (Grange) gunsmith
Lichtenstein, George (Morningside) musician 210
Little, Clement (Greyfriars) Commissary 19
Little, William (Greyfriars) Lord Provost 19
Littlejohn, Henry D. (Dean) doctor 126
Lumsden, James (Old Calton) singer 105
MacColla, Fionn (Mount Vernon) novelist 205
McCullogh, Mary (Morningside)
Macdonald, Hector (Dean) major general 131
MacDonald, Tom (Mount Vernon) novelist 205
McEwan, John (Old Calton) soldier 110
MacGillivray, William (New Calton) naturalist 119
McGonagall, William (Greyfriars) poet 55
Macintyre, Duncan ban (Greyfriars) poet 49
Mackay, Charles (Old Calton) actor 105
Mackenzie, Agnes Mure (Grange) historian 177
Mackenzie, George (Greyfriars) Law Lord 26
Mackenzie, Henry (Greyfriars) novelist 52
Mackerter, Robert (New Calton) estate worker 119
MacLehose, Agnes (Canongate) friend of Burns 83
MacMorran, John (Greyfriars) bailie 53
Madeleine of France (Holyrood) queen 95
Marie (Holyrood) Duchess of Pomar
Martyrs Monument (Greyfriars) Covenanters 50
Martyrs, Political (Old Calton) 101
Mary of Gueldres (Holyrood) queen 92
Medina, Sir John Baptiste de (Greyfriars) painter 44
Menzies, John (Warriston) bookseller 190
Merlioun, Walter (Tron Kirk) mason 217
Miller, Hugh (Grange) writer 175
Miller, Patrick (Greyfriars) inventor 27
Miller, William Henry (Craigentinny) scholar 216
Monboddo, Lord (see Burnett, J)
Monro, Alexander primus (Greyfriars) professor of Anatomy 36
Monro, Alexander secundus (Greyfriars) professor Anatomy 36
Monro, Alexander tertius (Dean) professor of Anatomy 127
Montrose, Earl of (St Giles) judge 62
Montrose, Marquess of (St Giles) soldier 63
Moray, earl of (St Giles) politician 64
Morton, John (Old Calton) hat-maker 104
Murray, John (Dean) surgeon 135
Mylne, John (Greyfriars) master mason 17
Mylne, Thomas (Old Calton) metalworker 103
Napier, John (St Cuthbert’s) mathematician 151
Nasmyth, Alexander (St Cuthbert’s) painter 146
Nasmyth, James (Dean) engineer 14
Nasmyth, Patrick (Dean) painter 134
Nelson, Thomas (Grange) publisher 177
Nelson, Thomas jr (Grange) publisher 177
Neuburger, Sigmund (Piershill) the ‘Great Lafayette’ 193
Nicol, William (Old Calton) schoolmaster 114
Nicol, William (Warriston) geologist 192
Paterson, John (Holyrood) golfer 98
Paton, Amelia Robertson (Dean) sculptor 123
Paton, Elizabeth (Greyfriars) 42
Paton, John Noel (Dean) painter 126
Pitcairne, Archibald (Greyfriars) physician 47
Playfair, William (Dean) architect 128
Porteous, John (Greyfriars) soldier 42
Pritchard, Mary Jane (Grange) murder victim 184
Raeburn, Henry (St John’s) painter 139
Raeburn, William (Old Calton) perfumer 107
Ramsay, Allan (Greyfriars) poet 24
Ramsay, Edward (St John’s) priest 137
Reid, Alexander (Old Calton) 108
Reid, Thomas (Old Calton) clockmaker 113
Ritchie, Willam (Greyfriars) solicitor 52
Rizzio [Riccio], David (Canongate) secretary 85, 99
Robertson, Mary Ann (Warriston) the ‘Red Lady’ 188
Robertson, William (Greyfriars) University principal 35
Rochead, James (St Cuthbert’s) 152
Rochead, Janet (St Cuthbert’s) society beauty 152
Rolland, Adam (St Cuthbert’s) lawyer 156
Ruddiman, Thomas (Greyfriars) printer 54
Runciman, Alexander (Canongate) painter 75
Runciman, John (Canongate) painter 75
Russel, Alexander (Dean) editor 129
Rutherford, Alison (Buccleuch) song-writer
Rutherford, Andrew (Dean) 128
Rutherford, Anne (St John’s) 138
Rutherford, Francesca (Dean) 128
Scots, Royal (Rosebank) 7th Leith Battalion 202
Scott, David (Dean) painter 123
Scott, Walter (Greyfriars) solicitor 40
Shore, Offley (Dean) soldier 126
Sibbald, Robert (Greyfriars) physician 18
Siddons, Harriot (Greyfriars) actor 29
Siddons, Henry (Greyfriars) actor 29
Simpson, James Young (Warriston) doctor 191
Sinclair, John (Holyrood) MP 98
Sinclair, Margaret (Mount Vernon) nun 207
Smellie, William (Greyfriars) printer 17
Smith, Adam (Canongate) economist 71
Smith, Andrew (New Calton) rear admiral 117
Smith, Robert (St Cuthbert’s) minister 149
Soldiers (Canongate) 79
Soldiers, (Old Calton) American Civil War 110
Stabilini, Girolamo (St Cuthbert’s) musician 150
Stair, Viscount (St Giles) judge 60
Steedman, Robert (Old Calton) soldier 110
Steell, John (Old Calton) sculptor 111
Stevenson, Alan (New Calton) engineer 119
Stevenson, Robert (New Calton) engineer 119
Stevenson, Thomas (New Calton) engineer 119
Stewart, Daniel (Old Calton) philanthropist 110
Stewart, Dugald (Canongate) philosopher 79
Stewart, Henry (Holyrood) Lord Darnley 95
Stewart, James (St Giles) Earl of Moray 64
Strachan, James (New Calton) tanner 120
Stuart, William (Grange) 173
Syme, James (St John’s) surgeon 137
Usher, Andrew (Grange) philanthropist 178
Watson, George (Greyfriars) benefactor 44
Whyte, Thomas (Old Calton) baker 108
Wilkie, Elizabeth (Old Calton) 104
Wilkie, James (Old Calton) soldier 110
Williams, Hugh ‘Greek’ (Canongate) painter 83
Williamson, Peter (Old Calton) bookseller 106
Wilson, John (Dean) singer 125
Witches Fountain (Edinburgh Castle) 2
Woods, William (Old Calton) actor 105
Woodward, Rufus (St Cuthbert’s) American student 156
Yellin, Julius von (Old Calton) scientist 111
Young, Andrew (Rosebank) composer 201
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Holyrood (1128)  	Royal Mile (Canongate); label: 2
title: Edinburgh Castle  	Royal Mile (Castlehill); label: 3
title: St Giles (1140)   	Royal Mile (High Street); label: 4
title: Tron Kirk  (1747)	Royal Mile High Street); label: 5
title: Greyfriars (1562)  	Candlemaker Row; label: 6
title: Canongate (1691)  	Royal Mile (Canongate); label: 7
title: St Cuthbert’s (1127)  Lothian Road; label: 8
title: St John’s (1818)        Princes Street; label: 9
title: Buccleuch (1756)  Charles Street; label: 10
title: Colinton (1650)  Dell Road; label: 11
title: Old Calton (1718)  Regent Road; label: 12
title: New Calton (1817)  Regent Road; label: 13
title: Dean (1845)  Dean Path; label: 14
title: Grange (1846)  Beaufort Road; label: 15
title: Warriston (1842)  Warriston Gardens; label: 16
title: Piershill (1887)  Portobello Road; label: 17
title: 'Craigentinny Marbles' (1856) - off Portobello Road; label: 18
title: Rosebank (1846)  Pilrig Street; label: 19
title: Mount Vernon (1895)  Mount Vernon Road; label: 20
title: Morningside (1878)  Morningside Drive