New Calton Burial Ground is a burial ground in Edinburgh. It was built as an overspill and functional replacement to Old Calton Burial Ground and lies...
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Old Calton Burial Ground is a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It located at Calton Hill to the north-east of the city centre. The burial ground was opened...
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David Laing (antiquary) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
of David Laing, New Calton Burial Ground Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1794 Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1830 Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.2...
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known as Old Calton Burial Ground. Permission was granted for an access road, originally known as High Calton and now the street called Calton Hill, up the...
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John Yule (botanist) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Dr John Yule MD FRSE FRCPE MWS (1762–1827) was an 18th/19th century Scottish physician remembered as a botanist. He specialised in conifers and was the...
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William MacGillivray (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
died at 67 Crown Street in Aberdeen on 5 September 1852 but is buried in New Calton Cemetery in Edinburgh. The grave faces east onto the eastern path. In...
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diningroom door. He is buried on the central western terrace of New Calton Burial Ground in Edinburgh, facing south to Arthur's Seat, next to the grave...
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Robert Stevenson (civil engineer) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
in Edinburgh. He is buried in the Stevenson family plot in the New Calton Burial Ground. Stevenson College, Edinburgh, named after Robert Stevenson, was...
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Alan Stevenson (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Portobello on 23 December 1865. He is buried in the Stevenson family vault in New Calton Cemetery with his wife, Margaret Scott Jones. The vault lies midway along...
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Thomas Stevenson (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Edinburgh on 8 May 1887 and is buried in the Stevenson family vault in New Calton Cemetery. The vault lies midway along the eastern wall. In the course...
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and Crematorium New Calton Burial Ground, Regent Road Newington Cemetery (includes a large Jewish section) North Leith Burial Ground, Coburg Street North...
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the age of ninety-two and was buried in the family grave in the New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh. Mary endowed approximately £11,500 for "The Mary Dick...
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Andrew Fyfe the Elder (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
text-books and engravings. He died on 31 March 1824. He is buried in New Calton Cemetery in a distinctive vault lying against the north wall. He had at...
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practice around the globe. He died on 4 April 1866 and was buried in New Calton Burial Ground overlooking his original birthplace and family home just to the...
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Ayrshire coast. He is buried in a vault in the north-east corner of New Calton Burial Ground in Edinburgh. At the age of 19, Miller played a part in the trial...
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James Ivory, Lord Ivory (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Edinburgh home of 9 Ainslie Place on 18 October 1866. He is buried in New Calton Cemetery in its north-west section. In 1817 he married Ann Laurie (d.1869)...
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Harrow on 31 August 1946 aged 51. He is buried with his parents in New Calton Burial Ground in Edinburgh just south of the main east-west entrance path. Mathematical...
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John Brown (physician, born 1810) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
in Edinburgh. on 11 May 1882, and was buried in his father's plot in New Calton Cemetery. The grave lies on the western side on the edge of one of the...
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David Bryce (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
whom he recognised in later life, and in his will. He is buried in the New Calton Cemetery in Edinburgh just west of the main north-south path, beside his...
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Robert Bryson (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Edinburgh. He made a sidereal clock for the City Observatory, formerly the Calton Hill Observatory, where it was used by Professor Thomas Henderson in his...
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Northhall Cemetery at Markinch Church. He also has a memorial in New Calton Burial Ground in Edinburgh. Viewforth House was demolished around 1900 in order...
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James Boyd (schoolmaster) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
incumbency of 27 years in the High School. He was interred at New Calton Burial Ground on 21 August 1856. On 24 December 1829 he married Jane Reid, eldest...
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John Inglis, Lord Glencorse (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
the day before his 81st birthday. He is buried in his family vault in New Calton Cemetery. In 1842 he married Isabella Mary Wood (1820–1855), daughter...
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Andrew Skene (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town and died there on 2 April 1835, aged only 51. He is buried in New Calton Burial Ground on the east side of the city...
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James Begbie (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
Victoria in Scotland. Begbie died in Edinburgh and was interred at the New Calton Cemetery. The grave is in a concealed location on the north face of the...
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Political Martyrs' Monument (category Calton Hill)
The Political Martyrs Monument, located in the Old Calton Burial Ground on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, commemorates five political reformists from the late...
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James Bisset (Royal Navy officer) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
famously seen action at the Battle of Trafalgar. He is buried in New Calton Burial Ground in Edinburgh. He did not have any children. "Thomas Bisset and...
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Edinburgh on 12 December 1876, at the age of 86. He is buried in New Calton Burial Ground in east Edinburgh. The grave lies against the north wall. His father-in-law...
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He died at 43 George Square on 2 January 1834. He is buried in New Calton Burial Ground in a vault half way along the northern boundary wall. His role...
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Andrew Fyfe (chemist) (category Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground)
east Edinburgh on 31 December 1861. He is buried in a family vault in New Calton Cemetery, with his second wife. The grave lies midway along the northern...
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