Allan Menzies
The name Allan Menzies is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Dean 2b cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 379 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Allan Menzies was buried in 1856. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Allan Menzies age is given as 51.
Allan Menzies calculated year of birth is 1805.
Allan Menzies is listed on the GPR grave numbered 75668.
Allan Menzies is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Allan Menzies has the record number 161806 within the GPR person name database table.
There is one image available for the monument listing Allan Menzies (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Allan Menzies record:
Re William Pearson, father of Karl Pearson (1857-1956): .... However after three years of apparent success, life for William in Edinburgh seemed to go seriously wrong. For his university records terminate abruptly in early 1848 with an enigmatic note written by Professor Allan Menzies (1805-1856): “I certify that Mr Pearson attended with perfect regularity until 28 January 1848, when he left Edinburgh, & that in all the Examinations he was highly distinguished by the extent and accuracy of his knowledge” (UCL:PP). Thus at the age of 25 years and 3 months, William Pearson mysteriously abandoned the law course which until that moment he had been completing excellently, and “left Edinburgh”. One can only speculate what triggered this sudden departure. Was there a crisis of some sort - a scandal perhaps? Or was his rapid departure from Edinburgh linked to other matters? (Campbell (1884:12) described Menzies as “extremely deaf”, information which I copied in Bibby (2013). However, it seems to have been his son, also Allan Menzies (1845-1916), who was deaf – he was born at 32 Queen Street, barely 200 yards from Broughton Street where William Pearson resided, and later became Professor of Theology at St Andrews and developed links with Germany. Menzies père played an interesting role in Scotland’s development of ‘open schooling’, so central to its “Democratic Intellect”, as the first Visitor appointed by the Trustees of the Dick Bequest – see Menzies (1835, 1854), and Cruickshank (1965). So the Menzies-Pearson link may be important in the development of William’s career.