Robert Fergusson
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Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and
Portrait by Alexander Runciman, 1772
Bronze figure by David Annand of Robert Fergusson outside Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk where the poet is buried.
Mathematician David Gregory, subject of a "cheerful" satirical eulogy by Fergusson.
Drawing of the poet used in Cassell's Library of English Literature
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.
Robert Fergusson
…Theatre), where, after a matter of weeks, he suddenly died. He had only just turned 24. He was buried in an unmarked grave on the west side of the Canongate Kirkyard. The poet Robert Burns privately commissioned and paid for a memorial headstone of his own design in 1787, which was erected in 1789. The stone was…
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