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120 EDINBUKGHSHlliE.
he changed it on succeeding through his mother to the estate of
Balcormo, Fifeshire. In 1772 he passed Advocate. His " History
of Edinburgh" appeared in 1779, and in 1785 he published his
" Collection of Criminal Trials." He died on the 20th November,
1786, aged thirty-seven.
This churchyard contains the earthly remains of the Eev. Andrew
Grant, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh. Dr.
Grant was successively Minister of Kilmarnock, the Canongate
and Trinity College Church; he was translated to St. Andrew's
Church in December, 1812. He was one of his Majesty's Chap-
lains, Dean of the Chapel Eoyal, and Collector of the Ministers'
Widows Eund. He died on the 2nd July, 1836, in the eightieth
year of his age, and fifty-second of his ministry.
A monument commemorates Robert Gilfillan, the ingenious poet.
Born at Dunfermline, on the 7th July, 1798, he was in his thir-
teenth year apprenticed to a cooper at Leith ; he subsequently be-
came clerk to a wine merchant. In 1837 he was preferred to the
office of collector of poor rates in Leith. He died on the -Ith De-
cember, 1850, at the age of fifty-two.
Tombstones in South Leith Cliurchyard commemorate the follow-
ing : — Robert Ramsay, died 9th December, 1806; James Balfour,
of Pilrig, died 6th March, 1795; Rev. John Colquhoun, Minister
of the JSiew North Church, Leith, died 27th November, 1827 ; Rev.
Dr. Robert Dickson, minister of South Leith, died 25th January,
1824; Rev. Alexander Nisbet, minister of the United Associate
Congregation, Portsburgh, died 12th September, 18.32 ; John Watt,
founder of the hospital at Leith, which bears his name, died 30th
September, 1829 ; John Macfie, died 28th December, 1852 ; Lieut.-
Colonel Archibald Kerr, died 10th Eebruary, 1850; Thomas
Hutchison, of Caiiowrie, Provost of Leith, died 8th May, 1852 ;
Duncan Mathieson, Advocate and Sheriff-Substitute, of Leith, died
24th May, 1838 ; Adam White, of Feus, first Provost of Leith, died
31st December, 1843.
On the tombstone of Margaret White, who died in 1810, aged
l\\ei)tv-rour, are inscribed these lines: —