Dean Cemetery
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The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the
The cemetery
Dean Cemetery, originally known as Edinburgh Western Cemetery,
As the cemetery plots were quickly bought up the cemetery was extended on its north side in 1871.[2] 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[3]) 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 John Ritchie Findlay (1898) alone for a decade). This section is relatively plain and generally unremarkable, but does include a line of Scottish judges 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
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
John Swinton, Lord Swinton died in the house in 1799. Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes was born in Dean House in 1804.[4]
Notable interments
Original cemetery
"N" denotes location in the first northern extension. "LR" denotes location in the Lords Row.
- The 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924)
- Lord Adam (1824–1914), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
- FRSELLD (1840–1922), physician and author (N)
- Sir Stair Agnew (1831–1916)
- FRSE(1796–1875), church historian
- John Aitken (1793–1833), Scottish journalist and editor (LR)
- Robert Alexander RSA (1840–1923), artist
- Sir Archibald Alison (d. 1867), advocate and historian, plus his son, Sir Archibald Alison (LR)
- FRSE(1806–1863), mineralogist
- FRSE(1879–1972), agriculturalist
- Major General William Allan (1832–1918), a general in the Crimean War
- Sir William Allan RSA (1782–1850), artist
- John Anderson (1833–1900), sculpted by David Watson Stevenson
- Thomas Anderson FLS (1832–1870), botanist
- Thomas Annandale (1838–1907), medical pioneer and surgeon (N)
- FRS(1788–1874), physician
- Lena Ashwell, Lady Simson (1869–1957), English actress
- Prof William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet
- Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849–1907), poet and author
- Dr FRSE(1861–1923), founder of the science of antenatal pathology
- William Francis Beattie MC (1886–1918), sculptor
- William Hamilton Beattie (1842–1898), architect (including Jenner's and the Balmoral Hotel)
- Dr John Beddoe (1826–1911), ethnologist
- Dr James Warburton Begbie (1826–1876), physician (N)
- Archibald Bell (1776–1854), author and advocate
- Dr Joseph Bell (1837–1911), lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh, personal surgeon of Queen Victoria
- John Bellany (1942–2013), artist
- Dr John Hughes Bennett (1812–1875), physiologist
- Isabella Bird, married name Bishop (1831–1904), traveller, writer and photographer. First female Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
- Alexander Black (1797–1858), architect
- Alexander William Black MP (1859–1906)
- Very Rev. James Black DD (d. 1948), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1938 and Chaplain to the King
- Lord Blackburn LLD (1864–1944), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
- John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895)
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
- Rev Dr Robert Blair (1837–1907) (N)
- Thomas Bonnar (father (d. 1873) and son (d. 1896), a back-to-back monument by David Watson Stevenson), artists, decorators and designers
- Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th Lord Borthwick (1813–1885)
- Tay Rail Bridge
- Samuel Bough RSA, artist, (1822–1878) (monument by William Brodie, 1879)
- Admiral James Paterson Bower (1806–1889) and his son Major General Hamilton St Clair Bower (1858–1940) (N)
- Prof Edinburgh University
- Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997), sculptor
- Sir Thomas Jamieson (1818–1902), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1877–82[5] (N)
- Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847–1921), brain surgeon
- FRSE(1873–1952), brain surgeon (N)
- Sir John Clerk Brodie (1811–1888), monument by John Hutchison (including his son Thomas Dawson Brodie) (LR)
- William Brodie (1815–1881)
- Agnes Henderson Brown (1866–1943), suffragette
- Andrew Betts Brown (1841–1906), engineer and inventor, co-founder of Brown Brothers & Co (N)
- James Buchanan and Jane Buchanan, philanthropists
- John Young Buchanan FRS FRSE (1844–1925), oceanographer
- Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), sculptor
- Dr FRSE (1809–1868), President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- MP for Cambridge University(N)
- Florence St John Cadell (1877–1966), artist (N)
- Hi-de-Hi
- Prof Francis Mitchell Caird (1853–1926), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1912–14 (N)
- Edward and James Key Caird, Dundeejute barons and philanthropists
- Major Donald Fraser Callander (1918–1992), soldier
- Sir John Campbell of the East India Company
- Richard Vary Campbell (1840–1901), legal author (N)
- Forth Rail Bridge(N)
- James Cassie RSA (1819–1879), artist (N)
- Sir David Patrick Chalmers (1835–1899), colonial judge (N)
- George Paul Chalmers (1838–1878), artist
- Robert Chambers(1832–1888), publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedia
- Prof John Chiene (1843–1923), surgeon
- Henry Martyn Clark (1887–1916), missionary
- Lord Cockburn (1779–1854)
- John Campbell Colquhoun (1803–1870), writer
- George Somervil Carfrae (1854–1934), civil engineer (N)
- Dr John G. S. Coghill (1834–1899), physician and medical author
- phrenologist
- FRSE (1829–1916), editor of The Scotsmannewspaper
- Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon and cricketer, son of Henry Cotterill
- Rev George Coventry FRSE (1791–1872), (LR)
- Lord Cowan (1798–1878), Senator of the College of Justice (LR)
- Robert Cox WS (1810–1872), medallion head by William Brodie
- Robert Cox MP (1845–1899)
- Sir James Coxe (1811–1878), psychiatrist, Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland
- Dr Kenneth Craik (1914–1945)
- FRSE(1851–1908), botanist
- Rev Prof FRSE(1812–1875), theologian and author
- Robert Croall (1831–1898), coach- and post-master
- Prof John Halliday Croom (1847–1923), physician
- Lord Cullen (1859–1931)
- Prof Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909) with his Dublin-born son, General Sir Alan Cunningham (1887–1983)
- FRSE(1841–1903), forensic scientist and physiologist
- FRSE(1821–1869), pharmacologist
- Dr FRCP(1785–1871), military surgeon (LR)
- Marcus Dods DD (1834–1909), theologian
- Dr Andrew Halliday Douglas (1819–1908), President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and his namesake son, Rev. Prof. A.H. Douglas (d. 1902), author and Professor of Apologetic at Know College, Toronto
- FRSE DL (1814–1885), Lord Provost of Edinburgh1859–62
- Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), PRSA artist
- Bishop John Dowden (1840–1910), Bishop of Edinburgh
- Thomas Drybrough (1820–1894), brewer
- Finlay Dun (1795–1853), musician and composer
- FRSE (1839–1899), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh1889–91
- Lord Provost of Glasgow1837 to 1840
- FRSE (1814–1886), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- FRSE(1889–1964), psychiatrist
- Dr James Duncan (1810–1866) and his son, Dr John Duncan (1839–1899)
- James Faed (1821–1911), artist
- Rev Valentine Faithfull (1820–1894), clergyman and cricketer
- Lord Provost(N)
- Vice Admiral Charles Fellowes (1823–1880) (N)
- FRSE (1863–1934), President of both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh(N)
- Richard Findlay (1943–2017), broadcaster and media magnate
- Rev Robert Howie Fisher DD (1861–1934), minister and author, Chaplain to the King
- Lord Fleming (1877–1944), military hero and judge
- FRSE(1828–1899)
- Prof John Fleming (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)
- Major-General James George Roche Forlong (1824–1904), soldier and engineer
- 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)
- FRSE(1844–1925), Commissioner of Lunacy in Scotland 1895–1910
- Lord Fraser (1817–1889), jurist
- First World War)
- Thomas Richard Fraser (1841–1920), pathologist (N)
- Sir William Fraser (1816–1898)
- Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), artist
- Edinburgh Royal Infirmary(N)
- Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet (1849–1912), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906–1909, MP for Edinburgh 1909–1912
- Margaret Dunlop Smith(1843–1920), also an author
- John Goodsir (1814–1867), anatomist
- Robert Anstruther Goodsir (1823–1899), doctor and Arctic explorer
- The Baron Gordon of Drumearn (1814–1879)
- Edinburgh University
- John Peter Grant, MP (1774–1848)
- Sir Ludovic Grant, 11th Baronet of Dalvey (1862–1836)
- Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866), botanist
- Lord Guthrie (1849–1920), Senator of the College of Justice
- William Guy, FRSE (1860–1950), pioneer of modern dentistry
- FRSEPRCPE (1824–1887)
- James Haliburton (1788–1862), Egyptologist
- James, 9th Baron Belhaven and Stenton (1822–1893), monument including a bronze by Pilkington Jackson
- Lord Handyside (1798–1858)
- Joseph James Hargrave (1841–1894) of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)
- FRSE CBE LLD (1847–1922), master tailor and author, son of Sir George Harrison, MP
- Sir Lewis John Erroll Hay, 9th Baronet of Park (1866–1923) (N)
- 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 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914–1917
- Franklin Hudson (1864–1918), American-born osteopath (N)
- Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936), artist (pair of sculpted heads by John Stevenson Rhind)
- Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866–1925), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1921–1923
- Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), pioneer female doctor and war hero (N)
- FRSELLD (1833–1912), lawyer and historian
- John Irving (1822–1848 or 49), lieutenant aboard HMS Terror, part of the 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 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1908–1910
- Francis, Lord Jeffrey(1773–1850) (LR)
- FRSE (1810–1893), founder of Jenners Department Store on Princes Street
- Lord Johnston (1844–1931), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
- FRSELLD (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
- The Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig (1926–2015)
- The 1st Baron Kinnear (1833–1917)
- Charles Kinnear, architect (1830–1894) of the firm Peddie & Kinnear, creators of Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, etc. (N)
- All four Barons Kinross, spanning almost two centuries (LR)
- FRSE(1808–1885), coin collector and orientalist
- William Law (1799–1878), Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1869 to 1872
- Right Hon FRSE(1830–1890), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
- Rev Cameron Lees (1835–1913)
- FRSE (1801–1889), engineer, and his son, Alexander Leslie
- John Lessels (1808–1883), City architect (N)
- David Lind (1797–1856), builder of the Scott Monument[6]
- Dr FRSEFLS (1829–1880), physician and botanist
- Prof Henry Harvey Littlejohn(1862–1927), forensic scientist, Edinburgh's first Police Surgeon.
- John Gordon Lorimer (1870–1916), cenotaph
- FRSE, 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 Henry Snell Gamley) (N)
- FRSE (1821–1901), first President of the Faculty of Actuaries
- Dr John McCosh (1801–1881), early photographer (cenotaph) (N)
- Major-General Sir Hector MacDonald (d. 1903), "The Fighting Mac" (bronze by William Birnie Rhind) (N)
- Rev Prof Patrick Campbell MacDougall (1806–1867), Professor of Moral Philosophy
- John McEwan (1832–1875), part of the brewing family
- Very Rev. Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851–1916)
- 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)
- David MacGibbon (1831–1902), architect and architectural historian, partner in MacGibbon and Ross (N)
- Archibald Donald Mackenzie (1914–1944), 'Captain Mack', officer of the Cameron Highlanders and later of the Brigata Stella Rossa, commemorated annually on Liberation Day in Italy
- Lord Mackenzie (1807–1869), Senator of the College of Justice
- Very Rev Dugald Mackichan (1851–1932)
- FRSE (1817–1900), physician and toxicologist, and his son Robert Craig Maclagan
- FRSE (1785–1865) military surgeon, surgeon to Queen Victoriain Scotland
- Very Rev Norman Macleod DD (1838–1911) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1900 (N)
- Donald Mackenzie(1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie
- Rev FRSE(1833–1903) (N)
- Sir Daniel Macnee RSA (1806–1882) artist and President of the Royal Scottish Academy (N)
- Rev Dr James Calder MacphailDD (1821–1908) Free Church minister and pioneer photographer (N)
- Robert McVitie (1854–1910) biscuit maker, creator of the digestive biscuit (N) (cenotaph)
- James Maidment (1793–1879) antiquarian (N)
- David Duncan Main (1856–1934) medical missionary
- Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple (1803–1870)
- Dr FRSE(1807–1894) British obstetrician
- 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 (1805–1883) half of the partnership Grainger & Miller, railway and dock engineers
- Very Rev John Harry Miller (1869–1940) (N)
- Janet Milne Rae (1844–1933), novelist
- Very Rev James Mitchell DD (1830–1911) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1901
- Rev John Murray Mitchell (1815–1904) missionary and orientalist (N)
- Very Rev Reginald Mitchell-Innes (1848–1930)
- Lord Provostof Edinburgh 1897–1900
- Alexander Monro (tertius)(1773–1859) physician of the Monro dynasty (LR)
- James Francis Montgomery (1818–1897) first Dean of St Marys Episcopal Cathedral
- Dr Charles Morehead (1807–1882)
- William Ambrose Morehead (1805–1863) governor of Madras
- Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928) artist
- Sir John Steell)
- Edinburgh University
- David Mure, Lord Mure (1810–1891) judge
- Sir Challenger Expedition(N)
- Robert Milne Murray (1855–1904) gynaecologist
- James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of the steam hammer, monument by John Rhind (N)
- FRSE (1792–1870) dentist to Queen Victoria
- Dr FRSE(1855–1937) Medical Officer of Health to Fife, medical author (N)
- FRSEPRSSA (1813–1864)
- 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 RSA (1854–1932) artist
- Sir James Balfour Paul (1846–1931) (N)
- Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson (1843–1910) judge
- 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
- 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
- Robert Carstairs Reid (1845–1894) civil engineer
- John Riddell (genealogist) (1785–1862)
- Very Rev Dr George Ritchie (1808–1888) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1870
- John Ritchie (1778–1870) and John Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898) newspaper tycoons
- Dr FRSE(1835–1902) medical 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 The Scotsman (1814–1870) (N)
- FRSECS (1814–1887) lawyer
- Sir Lord Provostof Edinburgh 1891–94
- Very Rev James Curdie Russell 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 FRSE(1828–1881) pathologist
- Very Rev Dr Arcibald Scott DD (1837–1909) Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1896
- David Scott (painter) (1807–1849)
- FRSELLD (1846–1916) chief inspector of schools
- FRSE(1798–1869) physician and botanist
- Patrick Shaw (legal writer) (1796–1872)
- Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth (1796–1885) politician
- Brigadier GeneralOffley Shore (1863–1922)
- Sir Princess Margaret(N)
- John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925)
- Basil Skinner (1923–1995) historian and campaigner for architectural conservation
- FRSE(1867–1946) historian and teacher
- Prof George Gregory Smith (1865–1932)
- Dr John Smith (1800–1879) President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- 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) Lord Provost of Edinburgh (bust by John Stevenson Rhind) (N)
- 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
- FRSE (1786–1866) Paisleycotton manufacturer
- John James Stevenson(1831–1908) architect, son of above
- Rev Robert Horne Stevenson DD (1812–1816)
- 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 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1937 to 1939 (N)
- Gabriel SurenneFSA (1777–1858) historian
- Lt Gen Thomas Robert Swinburne British army officer and artist
- 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 (1787–1856) architect
- The Very Rev C W G Taylor CBE DD (d. 1950) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1942
- FRSE (1813–1890), pioneer photographer and his younger brother Hugh Lyon Tennent(1817–1874) (N)
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1947) biologist
- Prof FRSE(1809–1884)
- Rev Dr Andrew Thomson DD (1814–1901) minister and religious author (N)
- Lt Col 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)
- 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 FRSE(1856–1917) surgeon
- William Veitch LLD (1794–1885) classical scholar
- Major General James Conway Victor (1792–1864) military engineer
- John Waddell (1828–1888) railway engineer
- Sir Norman Walker(1862–1942), dermatologist
- Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922) artist
- 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[7]
- William Watson, Baron Watson (1827–1899) law lord
- Joseph Laing Waugh (1868–1928) author (medallion by William Birnie Rhind)
- Rev Dr Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) (N)
- 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 Clara Anne Rendall, missionary, teacher and artist.
- Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856–1926)
- John Wilson (1800–1849) Scottish vocalist
- Prof Christopher North" and his brother James Wilson(1795–1856) a zoologist
- Dr Jenny Wormald (1942–2015) historian
- David Reginald YoungerVC (memorial only)
Southern Terrace
- Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour(1856–1927) pioneer of gynaecology
- Sir George Andreas BerryMP (1853–1940) eye surgeon
- 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, (1825–1901), owner of The Oban Times newspaper and inventor of The "Waverley" 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
- FRSE(1854–1946) physician
- 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 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 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)
- Sir David Wallace (1862–1952) urologist
- Dr Alexander Wood (1817–1884) inventor of the hypodermic syringe
20th century extension
- Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson (1862–1936) Senator of the College of Justice
- John George Bartholomew map-maker (cenotaph)
- Walter Lorrain Brodie (1884–1918), Victoria Cross recipient (cenotaph)
- Andrew Constable, Lord Constable (1865–1928)
- William Skeoch Cumming (1864–1929) artist
- Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (1860–1917)
- 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
- FRSE (buried in Serbiawhere she died)
- John George Govan (1861–1927) founder of the Faith Mission
- Herbert John Clifford Grierson(1866–1960)
- Rev Andrew Harper DD (1844–1936)
- 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
- FRSE(1871–1951) businessman and horticulturalist
- Lord Sands(1857–1934) judge and politician
- Stewart Kaye (1886–1952) architect
- FRSE(1928–2015) physiologist
- Sir George Macdonald (1862–1940) archaeologist
- Sir Alexander MacPherson FletcherMP (1929–1989)
- Father John Maitland Moir (1924–2013) priest
- Alexander Munro MacRobert(1873–1930) MP and Lord Advocate
- Sir Walter Mercer (1890–1971) surgeon
- FRSE(1866–1959) pharmacist
- Thomas Brash Morison(1868–1945) Senator of the College of Justice
- 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 Henry Snell Gamley) including the grave of his father-in-law, John Trayner, Lord Trayner
- 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
- Sir Henry Wade (1876–1955) surgeon
- Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson (1869–1948) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 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 Pilkington Jackson)
- Monument to Robert Dunsmure and his brothers, all of whom died abroad
- Monument to Col Alma and Sevastopol. The rear of the monument commemorates their part in the Indian Mutiny at Lucknow
- Monument to the Edinburgh-born Confederate Munfordsville, Kentucky in the American Civil War
- Monument to historian John Hill Burton, who is buried at Dalmeny. Monument in Dean is by William Brodie
- Monument to 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.[1] The oldest soldier buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym KCB (1839–1919) aged 80 (this is a normal grave not a CWGC grave).[8] Most of the war graves lie in the independently accessed 20th century section to the north of the main cemetery.
- Robert Digby-Jones VC is memorialised on his parents' grave in the north extension.
- Monument to the orphans dying at the immediately adjacent Dean Orphanage
References
- ^ a b "Cemetery Details". CWGC.org. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford McWilliam and Walker
- ^ Ordnance Survey 1851 : Edinburgh
- ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh" (PDF). Royalsoc.ed.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "The Scott Monument" (PDF). Orapweb.rcahms.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ Helen Dingwall. "A pioneering history: dentistry and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh" (PDF). Historyofdentistry.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "Cemetery Details". CWGC.org. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
Bibliography
- The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh edited by A. S. Cowper and Euan S. McIver, Edinburgh, 1992. ISBN 0901061549.