John Watson Gordon
The name John Watson Gordon is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Canongate Kirk church burial ground, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 236 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
John Watson Gordon was buried in 1864. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
John Watson Gordon calculated age is 76.
John Watson Gordon birth is given as 1788.
John Watson Gordon is listed on the GPR grave numbered 163022.
John Watson Gordon is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
John Watson Gordon has the record number 348609 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 14 November 2011
There is one image available for the monument listing John Watson Gordon (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against John Watson Gordon record:
Portrait painter Exhibited at first public exhibition in Edinburgh in 1808 A Scene from the Lay of the Last Minstrel After Raeburns death in 1823 he was the leading practioner of portrait painting in Scotland Chief Works:- Sir Walter Scott (original unfinished study in Scottish National Gallery); J G Lockhart; Professor John Wilson; Sir David Brewster