Morningside Cemetary

Morningside Cemetery was opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Cemetery Company and bought by the City of Edinburgh in 1992. It is still a working cemetery and, despite the loss of some ground to development, retains typical features of a late Victorian cemetery. Amongst those buried there are Robert Louis Stevenson?s nurse, a number of female medical and nursing pioneers, a Nobel Prize winner, a Hungarian patriot, and several artists. There are over 80 Commonwealth War Graves.

Many of the graves commemorate Edinburgh residents whose lives took them around the world as missionaries, administrators and soldiers. There are also a few graves of people from across the globe who died in Edinburgh, including a Chinese student and Hungarian exile.