James Clark

James Clark A great veterinary pioneer, Born 1732-Died 1808.

Erected to his memory by members of the veterinary profession in Great Britain and America, 1950.

Archibald Campbell Marquess of Argyll

Archibald Campbell Marquess of Argyll. Beheaded near this Cathedral A.D. 1661. Leader in council and in feild for the reformed religion.

"I set the Crown on the Kings Head. He hastens me to a better Crown than his own."

George Buchanan

George Buchanan Born 1506 Died 1582. Tutor to King James VI.

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin was born at Lichfield September 3rd 1758 and died at Edinburgh May 15th 1778.

Possessed of uncommon abilities and activity he had acquired knowledge in every department of medical and philosophical science much beyond his years. He gained the first medal offered by the Aesculapian Society for a criterion to distinguish, Matter from Mucus; and had prepared a thesis for his graduation on the Retrograde Motions of the Lymphatic Vessels in some diseases. He cultivated with success, the friendship of ingenious men and was buried by favour of Dr A. Duncan in this his family vault.

"Fame's boastful chissel, fortune's silver plume, mark but the mouldering urn, or deck the tomb"

Andrew Duncan

Dr Andrew Duncan M.D.President of the Royal College of Physicians and Professor of Theory of Medicine at Edinburgh. Born in St Andrews, studied medicine at Edinburgh and worked as a ship's surgeon for the East India Company. He founded the Royal Public Dispensary, the Caledonian Horticultural Society and the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum. He was inspired by the death of the Poet Robert Ferguson in the Bedlam.