Archibald Pitcairn
The name Archibald Pitcairn is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Greyfriars private cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 466 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Archibald Pitcairn was buried in 1713. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Archibald Pitcairn age is given as 61.
Archibald Pitcairn calculated year of birth is 1652.
Archibald Pitcairn is listed on the GPR grave numbered 138753.
Archibald Pitcairn is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Archibald Pitcairn has the record number 294816 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 23 June 2011
There are 5 images available for the monument listing Archibald Pitcairn (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Archibald Pitcairn record:
Probably the most famous celebrated physician of his time one of the three first professors of medicine in the Touis College later the University of Edinburgh (One of the other two Robert Sibbald though not buried here is commemorated by a plaque on the south wall) A supporter of Jacobite cause he lived life to the full and was impatient with the puritanical ways of the Presbyterian Scots He ordered a quantity of wine to be buried in his grave to be consumed only when the Stuart dynasty was restored His tomb was renovated in 1800 (and the wine apparently drunk) and again by the Royal College of Physicians of Scotland in 1952