Tour Scotland Video George Coombe Gravestone Dean Cemetery Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the George Coombe gravestone on ancestry visit to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. George, born 21st of October 1788, died 14th of August 1858, was a Scottish lawyer and writer on phrenology and education. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a brewer, and the elder brother of Andrew Combe. After attending the High School of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, he entered a lawyer's office in 1804; and, in 1812, he began his own practice. His most popular work, The Constitution of Man, was published in 1828. In 1840 he published his Moral Philosophy, and in the following year his Notes on the United States of North America. In 1833, Combe married Cecilia Siddons, a daughter of the actress Sarah Siddons, and sister of Henry Siddons, the author of the Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action. She brought him a fortune, as well as a happy marriage.

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