Burial Places Of Famous Scots

Alexander III - Dunfermline Abbey

J M Barrie Kirriemuir - Angus

John Balliol - Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries

Robert the Bruce - Dunfermline Abbey (his heart was taken on crusade by his comrade Douglas and is now buried at Melrose Abbey)

Robert Burns - Dumfries

Thomas Carlyle - The churchyard, Ecclefechan

Andrew Carnegie - Sleepy Hollow, New York

Charles Edward Stuart - St Peter’s, Rome
(Bonnie Prince Charlie)

James II - Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh

James III - Cambuskennerh Abbey, Srirlingshire

James IV - James IV’s body was removed from Flodden Field and taken to London. It lay, embalmed but
unburied in the Monastery of Sheen for several years. Following the dissolution of the monasteries it was consigned to a storage room. It was eventually buried at an unknown location.

James V - Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh

John Paul Jones - Originally buried in St Louis cemetery. His remains were moved in 1905 to Annapolis, where
they were placed in the American Naval Academy
chapel crypt.

John Knox - St Giles Churchyard (no longer in existence),
Edinburgh. There is a monument to Knox in St Giles Cathedral.

David Livingstone - Westminster Abbey

Flora Macdonald - Kilmuir, Isle of Skye

William McGonagall - Pauper’s grave, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh

James Graham, St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
Marquis of Montrose

David Hume - Calton Hill cemetery, Edinburgh

Macbeth - king of Scots lona abbey

Mary, Queen of Scots - Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster Abbey (originally Peterborough — her remains were
moved in 1612)

Sir Henry Raeburn - St John’s Churchyard, Edinburgh

David Rizzio - Canongate Kirkyard

Robert III - Paisley Abbey

Rob Roy - Balquhidder

Michael Scott - Melrose Abbey

Sir Walter Scott - Dryburgh Abbey

Alexander Selkirk - At sea, off the coast of Africa

Mary Slessor - Duke Town, Calabar, Nigeria

Adam Smith - Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh

Robert Louis Stevenson - Mt Vaea, Samoa

Thomas Telford - Westminster Abbey

William Wallace - Wallace’s arm is believed to have been buried by the monks of Cambuskenneth Abbey some
months after his execution. The whereabouts of his other body parts are unknown.

James Watt - Handsworth Church, Middlesex.