The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village,west of Edinburgh city centre,in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith,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.
William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor,with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson,to the science of thermodynamics,particularly focusing on its First Law. He developed the Rankine scale,a Fahrenheit-based equivalent to the Celsius-based Kelvin scale of temperature.
Robert William Thomson PRSSA FRSE was a Scottish inventor known for inventing the refillable fountain pen and the pneumatic tyre.
Sir John Fowler,1st Baronet,KCMG,LLD,FRSE was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s,he was engineer for the world's first underground railway,London's Metropolitan Railway,built by the "cut-and-cover" method under city streets. In the 1880s,he was chief engineer for the Forth Bridge,which opened in 1890. Fowler's was a long and eminent career,spanning most of the 19th century's railway expansion,and he was engineer,adviser or consultant to many British and foreign railway companies and governments. He was the youngest president of the Institution of Civil Engineers,between 1865 and 1867,and his major works represent a lasting legacy of Victorian engineering.
Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott,5th Duke of Buccleuch,7th Duke of Queensberry,,styled Lord Eskdail between 1808 and 1812 and Earl of Dalkeith between 1812 and 1819,was a prominent Scottish nobleman,landowner and politician. He was Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1842 to 1846 and Lord President of the Council.
Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb was a Scottish civil engineer. After serving as Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty and Director-General of Civil Engineering at the Ministry of Transport,he established the engineering consultancy firm Sir Alexander Gibb &Partners.
The Grange is an affluent suburb of Edinburgh,just south of the city centre,with Morningside and Greenhill to the west,Newington to the east,The Meadows park and Marchmont to the north,and Blackford Hill to the south. It is a conservation area characterised by large early Victorian stone-built villas and mansions,often with very large gardens. The Grange was built mainly between 1830 and 1890,and the area represented the idealisation of country living within an urban setting.
Benjamin Hall Blyth was a Scottish civil engineer.
Thomas Grainger FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer and surveyor. He was joint partner with John Miller in the prominent engineering firm of Grainger &Miller.
John Miller of Leithen FRSE MICE DL was a Scottish civil engineer and Liberal Party politician. Together with Thomas Grainger,he formed the influential engineering firm Grainger and Miller,specialising in railway viaducts.
The Institution of Engineers in Scotland (IES) is a multi-disciplinary professional body and learned society,founded in Scotland,for professional engineers in all disciplines and for those associated with or taking an interest in their work. Its main activities are an annual series of evening talks on engineering,open to all,and a range of school events aimed at encouraging young people to consider engineering careers. Between 1870 and 2020 the institution was known as the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (IESIS).
Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE DL LLD was a Scottish civil engineer,printer,historian and astronomer.
David Alan Stevenson FRSE,F.I.C.E.,FRSGS was a lighthouse engineer from the famous Stevenson lighthouse-builder family and noted amateur philatelist.
George Frederick Armstrong,,was a distinguished 19th century English academic specialising in railway,civil,and sanitary engineering who served as the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Over the course of his life he became a member of many learned societies and the author of many papers and lectures.
Henry Charles Stanley (1840–1921) was the chief engineer of the railways in Queensland,Australia.
William Dyce Cay,MICE FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer. He was responsible for the majority of late 19th century works to Aberdeen harbour. He was described by his cousin,James Clerk Maxwell,as a "watery engineer".
Sir Robert Blyth Greig was a Scottish agriculturalist. He served as Chairman of the Scottish Board of Agriculture from 1921 to 1928 and was Secretary to the Department of Agriculture for all Great Britain from 1928 to 1934.
James Leslie FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer specialising in docks,harbours bridges and reservoirs,largely on the east coast of Scotland. He was also an amateur meteorologist.
Sir Robert John Mathieson Inglis (1881–1962) was a Scots-born railway engineer noted for his work in Britain and India and his reorganisation of the railways in post-war Germany.
Alan MacDougall FRSE FRSSA MICE (1842–1897) was a civil engineer of Scots descent famed for his work in Canada in the 19th century.
