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THE DEAN CEMETERY. 139
P>y sul)Sci-iptiou ;ui obelisk has been reared to the memory of —
" Colonel the Hon. Lauderdale ^laule, Colonel James Ferguson,
Captain Adam ]Maitland, Lieutenant F. A. Grant, Lieutenant
¥. J. Harrison, and Dr. E. J. Mackenzie ; also 3G9 non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the 79th Highlanders, who died in
Bulgaria and the Crimea, or fell in action during the campaign
of 1854-5."
Colonel Maule was second son of William, Baron Panmure ; he
was born 27tli March, 1807, and died at Varna, on the 1st August,
1854. Colonel Ferguson was a member of the house of Ferguson
of Eaith. Captain Maitland was connected with the family of
Maitland of Dundrennan.
A Greek cross commemorates William Ambrose jMorehead,
member of the Supreme Council of India, who died on the 1st
December, 18(53, aged fifty-eight. His relative, the Eev. Eobert
Morehead, D.D., Incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Edinburgh, and
subsequently Eector of Easington, Yorkshire, was one of the early
contributors to the Edinburgh Review.
A monument, in the form of a Greek temple, reared by his
widow, celebrates the munificent liberality and Christian devoted-
ness of James Buchanan, founder of the Institution at Glasgow
which bears his name. He died on the 21st December, 1857.
In 1857 were reared handsome memorial stones in memory of
Hannah Leonora, widow of Sir William Maxwell, Bart., of Calder-
wood, and daughter of Eobert Pasley, Esq., of Mount Annan, who
died on the 19th July, 1857; William H. Playfair, architect of
Donaldson's Hospital, the New College, and other public buildings
at Edinburgh, who died on the 19th March, 1857, and Dr. Thomas
Clark, minister of St. Andrew's Church, who died on the 11th
January, 1857. Dr. Clark was born in Galloway, in September,
1790. Licensed by the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright in 1819, he
was, in 1824, ordained to the pastoral charge of Methven, Perth-
shire. In 1843 he was admitted to the collegiate charge of St.
Andrew's Church, Edinburgli. In the public business of the Church

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