the gravestone of renowned scottish photographer david octavus hill in dean cemetery edinburgh.

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Dean Cemetery is one of the finest Victorian cemeteries in Scotland. Located in Dean district of Edinburgh, next to the Dean Gallery, it contains the graves of many notable Scottish people.

David Octavus Hills

David Octavus Hills lived from 1802 to 1870. He was born in Perth and developed a passion for lithography, painting and photography. Along with with Robert Adamson, an engineer and photographer, he pioneered several developments in photgraphy between 1843 and 1847. His work included many landscapes around Fife and photographs of the Disruption Assembly in 1843, which saw the foundation of the Free Church of Scotland. He later turned this into a celebrated painting.

Dean Cemetery
Dean Path
Edinburgh
EH4 3AT
Phone: 0131-332 1496

Bus: Dean Gallery, Belford Bridge.
Walk: Dean is just over a mile from Edinburgh (Waverley) Station and the Tourist Information Centre. The easiest way to walk there is west along Princes Street, continue past St John's Church onto Shandwick Place. Turn right onto Queensferry Road, left onto Bells Brae just before Dean Bridge and then over the Water of Leith and up Dean Path.