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.
Leith is a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith.
John Smith (1825–1910) was a Scottish dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator. The founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry, he served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1883) and president of the British Dental Association. He was the official surgeon/dentist to Queen Victoria when in Scotland.
William Lindsay Alexander FRSE LLD was a Scottish church leader.
William Chambers of Glenormiston was a Scottish publisher and politician, the brother of Robert Chambers. The brothers were influential in the mid-19th century, in both scientific and political circles.
Sir James David Marwick FRSE was a Scottish lawyer, historian and town clerk. He served as Town Clerk of Glasgow for thirty-one years, during which time the entire city was transformed. Its powers and amenities were improved by by-laws and Acts of Parliament, and Marwick directed the city of Glasgow's development for much of the second half of the 19th century.
Robert Boog Watson FRSE was a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans from 1873 to 1876. Watson also described various Opisthobranchia from Madeira.
James Francis Montgomery FRSE was trained as an Anglican priest and served as Dean in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. He is usually referred to as Dean Montgomery. He was an early photographic pioneer and was one of the youngest members of the Edinburgh Calotype Club, one of the world's first photographic societies.
Warriston Cemetery is a cemetery in Edinburgh. It lies in Warriston, one of the northern suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built by the then newly-formed Edinburgh Cemetery Company, and occupies around 14 acres (5.7 ha) of land on a slightly sloping site. It contains many tens of thousands of graves, including notable Victorian and Edwardian figures, the most eminent being the physician Sir James Young Simpson.
Alexander BrysonFRSE FGS FRSSA FSAScot FRPSE was a Scottish biologist, geologist and horologist who served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts (1860–61) and as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863).
George Auldjo Jamieson FRSE was a Scottish businessman, chartered accountant and local councillor.
Charles Augustus Carlow FRSE was a Scottish mining engineer and owner and managing director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd., that was based in Leven, Fife.
Sir Henry Jardine of Harwood WS FRSE was a solicitor, antiquarian and a founder member of the Bannatyne Club in 1823, with his friend Sir Walter Scott.
James Duncan FRSE FRCS FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon and manufacturing chemist responsible for much of the British supply of chloroform in the mid-19th century. From 1839 to 1866 he was Director of Duncan Flockhart & Co one of Scotland’s largest chemical manufacturers.
James Grant FRSE DD DCL was a Scottish minister. Combining his religious skills with business skills he was also Director of Scottish Widows for 50 years and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1854. During his period as Moderator he was styled as Right Rev James Grant and thereafter as Very Rev James Grant.
Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie FRSE was a Scottish landowner, landscape photographer and arboriculturalist. He was President of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 1864 to 1871.
James Campbell Irons FRSE SSC (1840-1910) was a Scottish lawyer, historical author and amateur geologist.
John Ramsay L’Amy of Dunkenny WS FRSE DL (1813-1892) was a Scottish lawyer, phrenologist and early photographer. To distinguish himself from his grandfather, of the same name, he was often styled “Younger Dunkenny”.
William Stevenson was a Church of Scotland minister and antiquarian who served as professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh.
Robert Stodart Wyld of Gilston (1808–1893) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer, distiller and philosophical author.
