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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • formerly associated with the order. Greyfriars, Bedford Greyfriars, Beverley, Yorkshire, England Greyfriars, Bristol Greyfriars, Canterbury, earliest English...
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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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    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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    Skene, Aberdeenshire. Another in reasonable condition can be found in the kirkyard at the remote hamlet of Towie, west of Alford. Tullibody, as well as having...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Stirling's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, general view. It is the small plate between the two large tablets....
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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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    the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Belligerents Scottish Royalists England Scottish Covenanters...
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  • religious minorities, to the extent a portion of the graveyard of Greyfriars Kirkyard he haunts is dedicated (somewhat ironically) to his countless victims...
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    James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Canongate district of Edinburgh on 26 May 1799 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh along with his daughter Elizabeth where they have unmarked...
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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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    Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard...
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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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    Detail showing body in a burial shroud, grave of William Carstares, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh (1720)...
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    Patrick Miller of Dalswinton (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    inventor. Miller is buried in a tomb against the southern wall of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Miller was born in Glasgow, the third son of William...
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    George Buchanan (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Square) in Edinburgh on Friday 28 September 1582 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard on the following day. The grave was originally marked by a through-stone...
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    Hugh Blair (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    home, in Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh. The grave was originally unmarked, but a memorial was erected on the south-west section of Greyfriars Kirk to...
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