Autumn Drive Around Western Cemetery On Visit To Dundee Tayside Scotland

Tour Scotland early Autumn travel video with Scottish music, of a drive around the Western Cemetery on ancestry, history visit to Dundee, Tayside. Designed by James Findlater in 1852 the cemetery did not fully open until around 1858. This is a still operational cemetery founded in the middle of the 19th century. It rises northwards from the Perth Road. Graves include; George Armitstead, Baron Armitstead, born 1824, died 1915, Member of Parliament for Dundee; Henry Samuel Boase, born 1799, died 883, geologist;George Methven Cox, born 1852, died 1916, jute baron of the Camperdown Works; Thomas Hunter Cox, born 1820, died 1892, jute baron in the Camperdown Works; James Guthrie Davidson, born 1778, died 1861, founder of Rodyk and Davidson in Singapore; James Thomson Fairweather, born 1811, died 1859, tobacco merchant, founder of Fairweather and Sons; James Fairlie Gemmill, born 1867, died 1926; Sir Douglas Hardie, born 1923, died 2005, instigator of the Tay Road Bridge and the person who brought RRS Discovery to Dundee; Sir William High, born 1858, died 1934, shipowner and Lord Provost of Dundee 1923 to 1929; William Hunter, born 1840, died 1925, Lord Provost of Dundee; James Ireland, born 1846, died 1886, architect; John Mitchell Keiller, born 1851, died 1899, owner of Keiller's marmalade during its major expansion in the 19th century; James Laing, born 1813, died 1886, inventor; William Duncan Latto, born 1823, died 1899, editor of The People's Journal, James Bowman Lindsay inventor and electricity pioneer; Henry McGrady, born 1836, died 1917, Lord Provost of Dundee 1896 to 1899; James Duncan Mitchell, born 1892, died 1915, drowned on RMS Lusitania, memorial only; Alexander Hay Moncur, born 1830, died 1903, Provost of Dundee 1881 to 1884; Brigadier Surgeon George Alexander Moorhead, died 1912 and his pioneering doctor daughter Alice Moorhead, born 1868, died 1910, sister of the suffragette Ethel Moorhead; Charles Ower, born 1849, died 1921, and his brother Leslie Ower, born 1851, died 1916, architect; Reverend Doctor John Paterson Doctor of Divinity, born 1776, died 1855, missionary in Russia, George Alexander Pirie, born 1863, died 1929, radiologist; Professor Lloyd Turton Price, born 1874, died 1933, professor of surgery at St Andrews University in Fife; William Robertson, born 1825, died 1899, Provost of Dundee; John Greig Sibbald, born 1922, died 2006, founder of Graham and Sibbald surveyors; Major General Richard Talbot Snowden Smith, born 1887, died 1951, pioneer air pilot, pupil of Blondeau; John Steggall, born 1855, died 1935, mathematician; William Bruce Thompson, born 1837, died 1923, engineer and shipbuilder; Patrick Hill Thoms, born 1873, died 1946, architect; Alexander Gordon Milne Thomson, born 1866, died 1919, jute mill owner and geologist; David Couper Thomson founder of D. C. Thomson & Company. Ltd; Preston Watson, born 1880, died 1915, aviation pioneer; Very Reverend Doctor James Weatherhead Doctor of Divinity, died 1944, Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1927; David Dougal Williams, born June 1888, died 27 September 1944, an atrist born in Cheshire, Enland, and art teacher who lived, worked and died in Dundee. Very Reverend William Wilson, born 1808, died 1888, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1866.


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