Robert Cochrane Williamson
The name Robert Cochrane Williamson is not the first name listed on the monument.
The monument is in Dean 2e cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 375 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Robert Cochrane Williamson was buried in 1893. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Robert Cochrane Williamson calculated age is 72.
Robert Cochrane Williamson birth is given as 1821.
Robert Cochrane Williamson is listed on the GPR grave numbered 73705.
Robert Cochrane Williamson is listed as the relationship not given of Christian Cecilia Williamson on the grave monument.
Robert Cochrane Williamson has the record number 155054 within the GPR person name database table.
There is one image available for the monument listing Robert Cochrane Williamson (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Robert Cochrane Williamson record:
Robert Cochrane Williamson is listed in Rachel Britton's article on 'Wealthy Scots, 1876-1913' in Historical Research (58), p.88, as an Edinburgh rentier with a Scottish estate of £246,649. He may be the textile merchant trading in Manchester and Calcutta who began Williamson Brothers in 1854. This company was the focus of a celebrated English court case, Williamson v Barbour, in 1877 that formed important precedents in company law.