{{Short description|Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} [[File:Welcome to Warriston cemetery.jpg|thumb|City of Edinburgh Council notice board installed February 12, 2018]] [[File:Warriston Cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 1405480.jpg|thumb|Warriston Cemetery]] [[File:Central vaults, Warriston Cemetery.JPG|thumb|Central vaults, Warriston Cemetery]] [[File:The railway bridge, Warriston Cemetery.jpg|thumb|The railway bridge, Warriston Cemetery]] [[File:Warriston Cemetery looking down the south-west path to the war memorial.JPG|thumb|Warriston Cemetery looking down the south-west path to the war memorial]]
'''Warriston Cemetery''' is a [[cemetery]] in [[List of graveyards and cemeteries in Edinburgh|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 {{convert|14|acre}} 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 [[James Young Simpson|Sir James Young Simpson]].
It is located on the north side of the [[Water of Leith]], and has an impressive landscape; partly planned, partly unplanned due to recent neglect. It lies in the [[Inverleith]] [[Conservation Area]] and is also a designated Local Nature Conservation Site.<ref>Edinburgh City Local Plan, Jan 2010</ref> The cemetery is protected as a Category A [[listed building]].<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB27937|desc=Warriston Road, Warriston Cemetery, with all monuments, catacombs, bridge, boundary walls, gates and gatepiers|cat=A|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref>
In July 2013 the Friends of Warriston Cemetery was inaugurated to reveal the heritage and to encourage appropriate biodiversity.
The address of the cemetery is 40C Warriston Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 5NE.
==History== [[File:Robertson McLean's grave.JPG|thumb|The 8m high granite cross to Robertson McLean (1822–1871) by McGlashan (1807–1873), Warriston Cemetery]] [[File:The Gothic memorial to Laura Eustace in Warriston Cemetery.jpg|thumb|The Gothic memorial to Laura Eustace in Warriston Cemetery]] [[File:The large Peddie monument, Warriston Cemetery.JPG|thumb|The large monument to Revs. William and James Peddie, Warriston Cemetery]] [[File:Group of Celtic crosses by McGlashen, Warriston Cemetery.JPG|thumb|Group of Celtic crosses by McGlashen, Warriston Cemetery]]
Designed in 1842 by Edinburgh architect [[David Cousin]], the cemetery opened in 1843: the directors included Cousin and James Peddie (father of [[John Dick Peddie]]).<ref>National Library of Scotland: foundation papers</ref>
The first interment was towards the east, Margaret Parker, who was buried on 3 June 1843.
It was the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh, allowing the simplistic original title of The Edinburgh Cemetery,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maps.nls.uk/view/102190564|title=View: Plan of Edinburgh, Leith & Suburbs / by W. & A.K. Johnston (showing the division... - Town Plans / Views, 1580–1919|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref> and provided a model for several other Scottish cemeteries. In its own right it was broadly based on ideas first introduced at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]] in London. Designed elements include a [[neo-Tudor]] line of [[catacombs]]. Their length was doubled in 1862 by architect [[John Dick Peddie]].<ref>Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Colin McWilliam</ref> The chapel that once stood on top of the catacombs was demolished by 1930.
Soon after instigation (in 1845) the cemetery was divided by the [[Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway|Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway]] which was built east to west through its southern half. A tunnel was added, with Gothic archways at its mouths, to link the north and south sections, but the south being smaller, was the inferior area from this date onwards. The embankments of the railway have been partly removed following its closure in the 1950s, and the line is now a public walkway.
In 1929, the Edinburgh Cemetery Company expanded their business into the new field of cremation, converting East Warriston House (1818) into Warriston Crematorium on an adjacent site to the east. The architect was [[Sir Robert Lorimer]], hence the title Lorimer Chapel for the main chapel. The crematorium was extended to the west in 1967 by the architect [[Esme Gordon]].<ref>Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh, by Gifford McWilliam and Walker</ref> The cemetery lodge to the north-west dates from 1931 and was designed by architect J. R. McKay.
The cemetery was in private ownership until 1994, when it was [[compulsory purchase|compulsorily purchased]] by the City of Edinburgh Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst7883.html|title=Overview of Warriston Cemetery|access-date=1 October 2014}}</ref> The long task of restoring the heavily overgrown and vandalised cemetery has begun, but still has far to go. Currently, only the upper (westmost) section is maintained. Many sections are now so densely overgrown that the stones are no longer visible and are simply bumps in the green undergrowth.
The cemetery features areas overgrown with vegetation, with headstones and tombs covered in ivy and surrounded by deciduous trees.
==Monuments of architectural note== The Robertson mortuary chapel was erected in 1865 for Mary Ann Robertson (1826–1858), daughter of Brigadier-General Manson of the Bombay Artillery. The white marble shrine contained a sculpture of a reclining female figure, and was topped by a red glass roof, leading to the local nickname, the Tomb of the Red Lady. The monument was heavily vandalised and had to be demolished in the late 1980s.
Sir [[James Young Simpson]]'s grave remains visible but the lower section has been infilled with earth to provide space for further burial.
Several eminent sculptors' work is found in the cemetery, including a fine portrait of William Young, horticulturist (1816–1896) by [[William Birnie Rhind]], a monument to Robert Bryson by [[Thomas Stuart Burnett]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.scran.ac.uk/scottmon/pages/hisnovels/statues/david_dean.htm|title=The Character Statues|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref> and a wealth of fine ornate Celtic crosses by the McGlashens. A sizeable arched pedestal to the Rev James Peddie (d. 1845) by John Dick Peddie is also of note.
==Notable persons interred and cremated==
===Interred=== [[File:Diplomat and wife's tombstones, Warriston Cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 1405486.jpg|thumb|19th-century tomb of Sir [[William Taylour Thomson]] and his wife]] * [[George Aikman]] (1830–1905) artist and engraver * [[Joseph Anderson (antiquarian)]] (1832–1916) keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities, and his son [[David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Clarke|first1=DV|title=The foremost figure in all matters relating to Scottish archaeology': aspects of the work of Joseph Anderson|journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|date=2002|volume=132|pages=1–18|doi=10.9750/PSAS.132.1.18 |s2cid=163285162 |url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_132/132_001_018.pdf|access-date=1 January 2018}}</ref> * [[Robert Rowand Anderson]] (1834–1921) architect * [[George Angus (architect)]] (1798–1845) * [[John Hutton Balfour]] (1808–1884) botanist * [[William Beilby (physician)|Dr William Beilby]] (1783–1849) physician * [[Thomas Vernon Bell]] MD (1824-1903) homeopath * [[Adam Black]] (1784–1874), publisher, Lord Provost and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh * [[Samuel Blackburn]] (1813–1856) portrait artist * [[Hippolyte Blanc]] (1844–1917), architect * [[William Graham Boss]] (1847–1927) stained glass designer * Major General [[James Roper Boswall]] (1826–1883) * [[John Crawford Brown]] (1805–1867) landscape artist * [[Sir William Slater Brown]] (1844-1917) [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] 1909-12 * [[William Alexander Bryson]] [[FRSE]] (d. 1906) creator of the public electric lighting system in [[Leith]] in 1897 (one of the first in the world) - stone vandalised * [[Alexander Buchan (meteorologist)]] (1829–1907), creator of the map-based weather forecast * [[John James Burnet|Sir John James Burnet]] (1857–1938), architect * [[Archibald Burns (photographer)|Archibald Burns]] (1831–1880), photographer * Rev [[Dugald Butler]] (1862-1926) author (in the Marwick grave) * [[William Archibald Cadell]] [[FRSE]] (1775–1855) historian, mathematician and owner of the [[Carron Company]] * [[James Cadenhead]] (1858–1927) artist * Dr [[Colin Cadman]] (1916–1971), plant pathologist and mycologist * [[Robert Macfarlane Cameron]] (1860–1920) architect * [[Lorne MacLaine Campbell]] (1902–1991) [[Victoria Cross]] recipient * [[John Cheyne (advocate)|Sir John Cheyne]] (1841–1907) * [[Sir Thomas Clark]] (1823–1900), [[Lord Provost]] of Edinburgh (1865–1888)[[File:-22 Mary Ann Robertson copy.jpg|alt=Headless stone statue of woman in draped cloth holding a sword|thumb|The Red Lady tomb, Mary Ann Robertson (1826–58), Warriston Cemetery]] * [[James Scarth Combe]] (1795-1883) physician * Prof [[Arthur Connell]] (1794–1863), [[FRSE]] * [[Alexander Hunter Crawford]] (1865–1945) architect * William Crawford (1858-1926) creator of [[Crawfords Biscuits]] * [[Mary Crudelius]] (1839–1877) early campaigner for female education * [[John Cumming (artist)]] (1824–1908) father of [[William Skeoch Cumming]] * [[John Cunningham (architect)]] (1799–1873) * [[James Currie (shipowner)]] (1863–1930), owner of the Currie Line * Commodore [[James Dalgleish]] (1891–1964) * [[David Deas (Royal Navy officer)|Sir David Deas]] (1807–1876), naval physician, with his architect son, [[Francis William Deas]] (1862–1951) * [[George Deas, Lord Deas]] (1804–1887) * William H. Dowbiggin (1780–1848) veteran of the [[Battle of Waterloo]], son-in-law of [[William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure]] * Sir [[David Dumbreck]] (1805–1876) memorial only * John Gillison Dunbar (1874–1958) creator of Dunbar's lemonade * [[Alexander Duncan (army officer)|General Alexander Duncan]] (1780-1859) * [[Thomas Duncan (painter)]] (1807–1845) * [[David Dundas, Lord Dundas]] (1854–1922) judge * Robert William Dundas, MC, Legion of Honour, (1881–1928) military hero and solicitor, co-founder of [[Dundas & Wilson]] *[[Elizabeth Marianne Erskine]] (1871–1942) early female surgeon * [[David Taylor Fish]] FRHA (1824–1901) botanist and author * [[William Flockhart]] (1809–1871) chemist, joint founder of [[MacFarlan Smith|Duncan Flockhart & Co]] * [[Robert Gavin]] (1827–1883) artist * [[Robert Gibb (painter)|Robert Gibb]] (1845–1932), artist, most remembered for the painting ''The Thin Red Line'' and his elder brother [[William Gibb (artist)|William Gibb]] (1839-1929) * [[Robert Fleming Gourlay]] (1778–1863) Scottish-Canadian politician * [[Frederick Richard Graham-Yooll]] (died 1931) inventor * [[Andrew Grant (politician)|Andrew Grant (MP)]] (1830–1924) Liberal politician * [[James Grant (minister)|Very Rev James Grant]] DD [[FRSE]] (1800–1890) Director of [[Scottish Widows]] 1840 to 1890 and [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1854, father of above Andrew Grant * Prof [[John Russell Greig]] [[FRSE]] (1889–1963) veterinarian and creator of "clean milk" * Sir [[Louis Stewart Gumley]] (1870–1941), [[Lord Provost]] of [[Edinburgh]] 1935–38 * [[Samuel Halkett]] (1814–1877) librarian and author * [[George Harrison (Lord Provost)|Sir George Harrison]] (1812–1885), [[Lord Provost]] of Edinburgh 1882-5 * [[George Harvey (painter)|Sir George Harvey]] (1805–1876) artist. * [[David Ramsay Hay]] (1798–1866) artist and author * [[Alfred Trevor Haynes]] (1907–1969) President of the [[Faculty of Actuaries]] 1962–64 * [[John Henderson (Provost)|Dr John Henderson]] (1818-1901) surgeon, twice Provost of [[Leith]] * [[Alexander Henry (gunsmith)]] (1818–1894), gunmaker, First Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer, JP and Edinburgh Town Councillor * James Howie (1845–1910) photographer * [[John Howkins (civil engineer)]] (1840–1966) * [[Edith Hughes (architect)]] (1888–1971) Scotland's first female architect * [[William Hurst (civil engineer)]] (1810–1890) Scottish engineer linked to the early development of railways * [[Robert Kirk Inches]] (1845-1918) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1912-16 (one of the few graves of interest in the south section) * [[Cosmo Innes]] (1798–1874) judge, author and antiquarian. A member of the [[Edinburgh Calotype Club]] one of the world's first photographic societies * Professor [[Robert Jameson]] (1774–1854), naturalist and mineralogist * [[Feliks Janiewicz]] (1762–1848), Polish composer and violinist in exile * [[James Jardine (engineer)|James Jardine]] (1776–1858) civil engineer * Alexander Karley RN (1785-1859) Royal Navy Commander of ships such as [[HMS Apollo (1805)|HMS Apollo]] * [[Alexander Keiller (physician)|Alexander Keiller]] (1811–1892), physician and obstetrician; introduced gynaecological teaching into the [[Edinburgh Medical School]] * [[Philip Kelland]] (1808–1879), English mathematician * [[John Falconer King]] FIC FCS (1846–1919) Edinburgh city analyst * Count [[Walerian Krasiński]] (1795–1855), Polish Calvinist politician, nationalist and historian * [[Robert Scott Lauder]] (1803–1869), artist (monument by [[John Hutchison (sculptor)|John Hutchison]]) * [[James Eckford Lauder]] (1811–1869), artist, buried with his older brother Robert Scott Lauder * Rev Prof Alexander Lawson DD (1852–1921) professor of English Literature at [[St Andrews University]] * [[Thomas Livingstone Learmonth]] (1818–1903) Tasmanian politician, nephew of [[John Learmonth]] * [[Charles Lees (painter)|Charles Lees]] [[Royal Scottish Academy|RSA]] (1800–1880) artist * John Allan Lindsay (1865–1942) the final Provost of [[Leith]] 1917–1920 * [[Hilda Lockhart Lorimer]] (1873–1954) classical scholar, and her brother [[John Gordon Lorimer (1870-1914)]] * Professor [[David Low (agriculturalist)|David Low]] (1786–1859), agriculturalist * [[William Henry Lowe]] MD (1815-1900) physician and botanist * [[Charles Somerville MacAlester]] (1797–1891) - grave vandalised * [[Horatio McCulloch]] (1806–1867), artist (monument by John Rhind) * [[Robert MacDonald (minister)|Very Rev Robert MacDonald]] (1813-1893) [[Moderator of the General Assembly]] of the Free Church of Scotland in 1882 * [[Robert MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale]] (1802–1880) judge * [[Stewart McGlashan]] (1807–1873) sculptor * [[Alastair Macintyre]] (1913-1979) broadcaster * [[Gillian Maclaine]] (1798–1840) adventurer, memorial only - lost at sea with his family * Sir [[John Lorne MacLeod]] (1873–1946) [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] 1916 to 1919 * The Very Rev [[John McMurtrie (moderator)|John McMurtrie]] DD (1831–1912) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1904 * Prof [[William Ramsay McNab]] (1844–1889), botanist (memorial on parents' grave) * [[Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay and Oronsay]] (1793–1874), advocate and Tory politician; [[Lord Justice General]] and [[Lord President of the Court of Session]] (1852–1867) * [[Charles Hodge Mackie]] (1862-1920) artist * Sir [[Richard Mackie]] (1851–1923) Provost of [[Leith]], 1899 to 1908 * [[Thomas Main (minister)|Very Rev Thomas Main]] (1813-1881) [[Moderator of the General Assembly]] of the Free Church of Scotland * Sir [[James David Marwick]] (1826–1908) * [[Alexander Martin (Scottish minister)|Very Rev Alexander Martin]] DD LLD (1857–1946) Principal of [[New College, Edinburgh]] * [[Frances Melville|Frances Helen Melville]] (1873 – 1962) suffragist, academic * [[John Menzies (businessman)|John Menzies]] (1808–1879), founder of the national newsagent chain bearing his name * Thomas Menzies (1847–1901), major shipbuilder in Leith * Prof [[Thomas Hugh Milroy]] LLD [[FRSE]] (1869–1950) physiologist, organic chemist and Vice President of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] * [[Babtie, Shaw and Morton|Hugh Morton]] (1812–1878) civil engineer * [[Claud Muirhead]] (1835–1910) owner and editor of the [[Edinburgh Advertiser]] * [[Charles Murray, Lord Murray]] (1866–1936) judge, and his son, [[Keith Anderson Hope Murray]] (1903–1993) * [[Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves]] (1800–1876) Scottish judge * [[Patrick Neill (naturalist)]] (1776–1851) * [[William Nicol (inventor)|William Nicol]] (1770–1851), physicist and geologist * [[Alexander Nicolson]] (1827–1893) scholar and mountaineer * Cpt John Orr (died 1879) who fought at Waterloo * [[John H. Oswald]] (1830–1899) landscape artist * [[George Outram]] (1805–1856), humorist and editor of the Glasgow Herald * Walter Gray Pattison (1829–1890) whisky distiller and blender (in "secret garden") * [[Sir William Peck]] (1862–1925), astronomer * [[Alexander Peddie]] (1810–1907), physician and author; and his nephew-- * [[John Dick Peddie]] (1824–1891), architect (see above) * [[David Bruce Peebles]] (1819–1892) engineer * [[Major General Robert Pitman]] CB HEIC (1777-1846) * James Pocock (1777–1857) veteran of the [[Battle of Waterloo]] * [[James Pringle (Provost)|James Pringle]] (1822–1886), businessman and Provost of Leith (1881–86) * [[Harold Raeburn]] (1865–1926), mountaineer * Richard Ramage (1834–1920) co-founder of [[Ramage & Ferguson]] shipbuilders in [[Leith]] * [[Alexander Ramsay (architect)|Alexander Ramsay]] (1777–1847), architect * [[John Rhind (sculptor)|John Rhind]] (1828–1892), sculptor (also his sons [[William Birnie Rhind]] and [[Thomas Duncan Rhind]] in the same plot) * [[William Robertson (statistician)|Dr William Robertson]] [[FRSE]] (1818–1882), physician and statistician * [[John Merry Ross]] LLD (1833–1883) author * [[John Sheriff]] (1816-1844) [[Royal Scottish Academy|ARSA]], artist - one of the first burials * [[John Siveright]] (1779–1856), of the Hudson's Bay Company * Sir [[James Young Simpson]] (1811–1870), pioneer of anaesthetics * [[John Smart (landscape artist)]] (1838–1899) * [[Alexander Smith (poet)|Alexander Smith]] (1829–1867), Scottish poet (monument carved by [[John Rhind (sculptor)|John Rhind]]) * [[John Smith (dentist)|John Smith]] (1825–1910), surgeon and dentist, FRSE, FRCS, founder of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital, Queen Victoria's dentist * [[Malcolm Smith (Scottish politician)]] (1856–1935), MP plus Provost of Leith 1908–17 * Rev [[Walter Chalmers Smith]] (1824–1908) hymn-writer * John Stevenson (1790–1831) [[Sir Walter Scott]]'s "True Jock" * Prof [[Charles Hunter Stewart]] [[FRSE]] (1854–1924) public health expert * [[Archibald Buchanan Stirling]] (1811-1881) conservator (south section) * [[James Hutchison Stirling]] (1820–1909) philosopher * Admiral [[Pringle Stoddart]] (1768–1848) * Sir [[John Struthers (anatomist)|John Struthers]] (1823–1899), surgeon and anatomist * [[John Stuart (antiquarian)]] (1813–1877) * Captain Francis Stupart (Scots Greys), Cavalry Officer who fought in the Battle of Waterloo * [[William Swan (physicist)]] (1818–1894) [[FRSE]] (in "secret garden") discoverer of the [[Swan band]] * Sir [[William Taylour Thomson]] (1813–1883) military officer and diplomat (a noteworthy double sarcophagus paired with his wife) * [[Thomas Jameson Torrie]] (d. 1858), advocate, geologist, mineralogist and botanist * Sir [[John Batty Tuke]] (1835–1913) eminent psychiatrist *[[Dr Catherine Jane Urquhart]] (1845–1902) early female doctor (graduated from the [[London School of Medicine for Women]] in 1892) * George Waterston (1808–1893) stationer, founder of Waterston &sons, not to be confused with the Bookshop * [[William Williams (veterinarian)|William Williams]] (1832–1900), Welsh veterinary surgeon, principal of the Dick Vet College * [[Andrew Wood (surgeon)|Dr Andrew Wood]] (1810–1881) President of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]
===Cremated=== [[File:Warriston Crematorium, Edinbyrgh.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|Warriston Crematorium, Edinburgh]] Warriston Crematorium is a privately-run entity on a separate site, east of the main cemetery. It has several areas of remembrance, the oldest being the oak-panelled rooms in the basement. To the north, there is both a Rose Garden and Water Garden holding memorials. The Book of Remembrance is opened to the date each day, for those marking the anniversary of a death. A computerised version of the Book of Remembrance is also available, enabling other dates to be viewed. * [[Alfred Adler]] (1870–1937), Austrian psychotherapist and founder of the school of individual psychology. Moved April 2011 to Austria<ref>[http://www.orf.at/stories/2052414/ Alfred Adlers Asche nach 74 Jahren entdeckt] orf.at, 2011-04-10</ref><ref>[http://wien.orf.at/stories/509607/ Asche von Adler kommt nach 74 Jahren zurück] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725175739/http://wien.orf.at/stories/509607/ |date=25 July 2011 }}, wien.orf.at, 2011-04-11</ref> * Sapper [[Adam Archibald]] (1879–1957), [[Victoria Cross|VC]] recipient [[World War I]]<ref name=blvch>{{cite web|url=http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/scoedinb.htm|title=SCOTLAND EDINBURGH|website=www.victoriacross.org.uk}}</ref> * Captain [[Charles George Bonner]] (1884–1951), [[Royal Navy]] [[Victoria Cross]] recipient World War I.<ref name=blvchs>[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/stafford.htm Burial Location VC holders Staffordshire (headstone in St Mary's Churchyard, Aldridge).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805072449/http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/stafford.htm |date=5 August 2011 }} At time of writing he is not entered on the page for Edinburgh.</ref> * [[Anthony Chenevix-Trench]] (1919–1979), Headmaster of [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Fettes College]]s<ref>{{cite book|last=Peel|first=Mark|year=1996|title=[[The Land of Lost Content (book)|The Land of Lost Content: The Biography of Anthony Chenevix-Trench]]|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Pentland Press|pages=225-233|isbn=1-85821-400-9}}</ref> * Brigadier [[Arthur Edward Cumming]] (1896–1971), [[Victoria Cross|VC]] recipient, Malaya, [[World War II]]<ref name=blvch /> * [[Frederick Gardiner (radiologist)]] [[FRSE]] (1874–1933), dermatologist and x-ray pioneer/martyr * [[Andrew Gilzean]] (1877–1957) MP * [[Tom Hart (businessman)|Tom Hart]] (1922–1982) chairman of [[Hibernian Football Club]] * [[Sir Robert Lorimer]] (1868–1929), architect. One of the first cremations, his ashes are buried with his parents at [[Newburn, Fife]]. * Lieutenant [[David Lowe MacIntyre]] (1895–1967), Army [[Victoria Cross|VC]] recipient, [[World War I]]<ref name=blvch /> * [[Ebenezer James MacRae]] (1881–1951), City Architect for Edinburgh * Sir [[Frank Mears]] (1880–1953) architect and town planner * [[Don Revie]] (1927–1989), English footballer and manager<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Revie – Part 8 Disgrace and despair (1977–89)|url=http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/managers/revie8.htm|website=mightyleeds.co.uk|access-date=25 March 2015}}</ref> * Captain [[Henry Peel Ritchie]] (1879–1958), [[Royal Navy]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]] recipient, East Africa, [[World War I]]<ref name=blvch /> * Drum-Major [[Walter Potter Ritchie]] (1892–1965), [[Victoria Cross|VC]] recipient, [[Battle of the Somme]], [[World War I]]<ref name=blvch /> * Colonel [[Theodore Salvesen]] (1863-1942)<ref>{{cite web|title=Colonel Theodore Emile Salvesen|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2452476/theodore-emile-salvesen|website=cwgc.org|access-date=31 December 2025}}The CWGC give his death date as 15 January.</ref> * Prof [[James Lorrain Smith]] (1862–1931) anatomist<ref>{{cite journal |title=James Lorrain Smith |journal=The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology |date=1931 |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=683–696 |doi=10.1002/path.1700340507 |s2cid=4743457 }}</ref> * [[Alexander Burns Wallace]] (1906-1974) Scottish plastic surgeon * Sir [[Charles Laing Warr]] (1892–1969), Minister of [[The High Church of St Giles]], Edinburgh, and [[Dean of the Thistle and Chapel Royal Scotland]] (1926–1969)
==War graves== Warriston Cemetery contains 100 graves of Commonwealth service personnel, 72 from [[World War I]] and 27 from [[World War II]], besides a grave of a Belgian soldier.<ref name=cwgc1>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/47118/EDINBURGH%20(WARRISTON)%20CEMETERY|title=CWGC Cemetery Report.}}Retrieved 5 August 2012.</ref> The cemetery also contains a [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|CWGC]] memorial, at the end of the columbarium, in the form of panels listing 154 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II who were cremated here.<ref name=cwgc2>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2047018/EDINBURGH%20(WARRISTON)%20CREMATORIUM|title=CWGC Cemetery Report.}}Retrieved 5 August 2012.</ref>
==Botanical== Among trees of note in Warriston Cemetery are two [[Ulmus 'Purpurea'|purple-leaved elms]] and a [[Ulmus glabra 'Concavaefolia'|concave-leaved elm]], both among the rarer of pre-Dutch Elm Disease cultivars.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category}} * [[Geographic coordinates]]: {{coord|55.969|-3.198|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} * [https://friendsofwarristoncemetery.com/ Friends of Warriston Cemetery website] * [https://www.facebook.com/groups/164299747054697/ Friends of Warriston Cemetery Facebook page] * {{Bluesky}} * [https://edinburghcrematorium.com/warriston-crematorium/ Warriston Crematorium Official website]
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