Walter Scott

Walter Scott

male, deceased (1832)
Scottish historical novelist, the lady of the lake, waverley, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, english literature, Scottish…Royal High School alumni, From Edinburgh, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, The Heart of Midlothian
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe...
David Hume

David Hume

male, deceased (1776)
philosopher, historian, Skepticism, Scottish, The History of England, Essayist…From Edinburgh, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, Edinburgh University, Of National, sharply critical of thick theism in all its forms
David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important...
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

male, deceased (1894)
Scottish historical novelist, British non-fiction outdoors writer, from Napa County, California, islomaniac, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Edinburgh…Edinburgh Academical, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, the canon
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English...
James Boswell

James Boswell

male, deceased (1795)
Alumni of the University of Glasgow, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, calvinist, Biographer, author, boswell…From Edinburgh, The Club, Alexander Boswell, 8th Laird of Auchinleck
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh,...
John Murray

John Murray

male, deceased (1914)
Stirling High School, Stirling High School alumni, British road accident victim, University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Newhaven, Edinburgh, Challenger expedition…Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Isle of Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, university of edinburgh, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh
Sir John Murray KCB (3 March 1841 – 6 March 1914) was a pioneering Scots-Canadian oceanographer and marine biologist. Murray was born at Cobourg, On...
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

male, deceased (1930)
memoirist, death by myocardial infarction, Pre-1914 Association Football player, Legion of Frontiersmen member, Scottish historical novelist, British writer…Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, From Edinburgh
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective...
James Hutton

James Hutton

male, deceased (1797)
buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Old Style, New Style, Plutonism, Plutonist School, buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard…AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, From Edinburgh, Royal High School alumni, Royal Society of Edinburgh, University of Paris alumni
James Hutton (3 June 1726 O.S. (14 June 1726 N.S.), Edinburgh, Scotland - 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, noted for formulating...
David Brewster

David Brewster

male, deceased (1868)
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, lighthouses, rector, mathematician, writer, inventor…university of edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, from the Scottish Borders, Academic of the University of St Andrews
Sir David Brewster,FRS, (11 December 1781 - 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his...