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    Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at the southern edge of the Old Town, adjacent...
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    nightwatchman. When John Gray died he was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, the kirkyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Bobby then became...
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    The Greyfriars Bobby Fountain is a granite fountain in Edinburgh, surmounted by a bronze life-size statue of Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier who became...
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  • formerly associated with the order. Greyfriars, Bedford Greyfriars, Beverley, Yorkshire, England Greyfriars, Bristol Greyfriars, Canterbury, earliest English...
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    The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard is an oil painting by William Allan. It was painted in 1838 when he was the President of the...
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    in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is surrounded by Greyfriars Kirkyard. Greyfriars traces its origin to the south-west parish of Edinburgh, founded...
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    monuments throughout Scotland. One of the most famous is that erected at Greyfriars Kirkyard in 1707, commemorating 18,000 martyrs killed from 1661 to 1680. In...
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    Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard...
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    Edinburgh resident was Greyfriars Bobby. The small Skye Terrier reputedly kept vigil over his dead master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard for 14 years in the...
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    William McGonagall (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Edinburgh's South College Street and was buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. A wall-mounted memorial installed to his memory in...
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  • follows him. Auld Jock dies in poverty in an inn and is buried in Greyfriar's Kirkyard. Bobby returns to Auld Jock's grave every night to sleep. Against...
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    Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    his townhouse at 65 Princes Street in Edinburgh and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The vault lies on the west side of the section known as the Covenanter's...
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  • James Stuart of Binend (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Hamilton. He died in Edinburgh on 10 June 1777. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. His large tomb lies midway along the eastern wall amongst other...
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    south-west extent of the wall. It then ran east, wrapping around Greyfriars Kirkyard, to the Bristo Port and the Potterow Port, both located in the vicinity...
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    Colin Maclaurin (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    army marched south, but died soon after his return. He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The simple table stone is inscribed simply "C. M. Nat...
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    William Robertson (historian) (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    which gave its name to the Grange district). Robertson is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. The grave is within a large stone mausoleum, second only...
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    Covenanters were routed. Nearly 1200 Covenanter prisoners were held at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh; Claverhouse was dispatched to London to protest against...
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    William Little (Lord Provost) (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    November 1601. He was buried in the then relatively new Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Greyfriars Kirk was at that time still unbuilt and the ground was...
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    May 1894. A memorial to Romanes exists in the north west corner of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh on the grave of his parents. Romanes's and Darwin's...
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    Robert Kerr (writer) (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Meadows in Edinburgh, where he had lived since 1810, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh against the eastern wall. His stone is added...
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    Joseph Black (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Street in south Edinburgh in 1799 at the age of 71 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The large monument lies in the sealed section to the south-west...
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    in the studio and outdoors, often amongst the elaborate tombs in Greyfriars Kirkyard. They photographed local and Fife landscapes and urban scenes, including...
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    George Street in the New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in central Edinburgh. The grave lies against the western wall of...
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    James Craig (architect) (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    in northmost section of Greyfriars Kirkyard. At the time gravestones were only permitted on the perimeter wall of Greyfriars so no stone was permitted...
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    Henry Mackenzie (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Justice known as Lord MacKenzie. He is buried with his father in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Two other sons, Robert and William, worked for the East India Company...
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    Catherine Wilson, died 8 August 1805, aged only 28, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, with their infant child George (d.1802). His brother, John Jeffrey...
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  • Andrew Crosbie (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    on 25 February 1785, and was interred in a now unmarked grave at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Crosbie was married to Elizabeth Barker, a "woman of...
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    Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll (26 February 1629 – 30 June 1685) was a Scottish peer and soldier. The hereditary chief of Clan Campbell, and a...
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    James Hutton (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    his friend Joseph Black, in the now sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, commonly known as the Covenanter's Prison. Hutton did...
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    Thomas Henderson (astronomer) (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Hillside Crescent in Edinburgh on 23 November 1844 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave may be either in the grave of Alexander Adie or in a grave...
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