The graveyard near my house is somewhat out of the way and unlikely to be much of a tourist attracti
The graveyard near my house is somewhat out of the way and unlikely to be much of a tourist attraction; consequently, while there’s a local ‘Friends of’ group that does weeding and stuff, it’s one of the many things rather neglected by the city council. It does, however, have a few residents of a certain quiet significance, including:Alison Cunningham, Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood nurse; without her firing his imagination when he was a frail little boy, we might not have got classics like Treasure Island and all its many (many, many) derivative works. (Stevenson himself is buried in Samoa, so you’d have to go a bit further to visit his grave.)Sir Edward Appleton, discoverer of the Appleton Layer. I have no idea what the Appleton Layer is, but he won a Nobel Prize for it so it must be pretty important. The Cadell sisters, contemporaries and fellow students of Elsie Inglis as some of the first women to study medicine in Scotland and prominent in the suffrage movementElla Pringle, the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghAlso pictured are a few graves that I just found interesting, such as:William Bland, Kitchener’s Bodyguard who was presumably killed in the Boer War. Why he has a different surname to the rest of his family, I do not know.William Christian, died ‘through the effects of carriage accident’. Did he fall off one, get run over by one, what?Private W.R. Simpson, a cavalry soldier killed in 1915. You ever read/seen War Horse? Yeah. James Scott Harris, died at Craiglockhart in 1918. Between the date, Craiglockhart being the location of a psychiatric hospital specialising in treating shell-shocked officers, and the lack of any further detail… There may be a very sad story there. -- source link
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