Canongate Kirkyard
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The Canongate Kirkyard stands around Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The churchyard was used for burials from the late 1680s until the mid-20th century.
Canongate Kirk, seen from Calton Hill, with the churchyard in the foreground, and Salisbury Crags behind
The Canongate Kirk
The Coachman's Stone
Detail from the grave of John Frederick Lampe, Canongate Kirkyard
Adam Smith
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Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by many as the "father of economics", or
Canongate Kirkyard
…The churchyard was used for burials from the late 1680s until the mid-20th century. The most celebrated burials at the kirkyard are the economist Adam Smith and the poet Robert Fergusson, but many other notable people were interred in the cemetery. It has been claimed that David Rizzio, the murdered private…
Posthumous Muir portrait, c. 1800
François Quesnay, one of the leaders of the physiocratic school of thought
David Hume was a friend and contemporary of Smith's.
Portrait of Smith by John Kay, 1790