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The Grange Cemetery lies close to the Meadows where in former times the city reputedly buried its plague victims.  The headstone on the left carries the likeness of John Henry Campbell (1847-78), the facial hair and weathering of the stone giving him the appearance of someone much older than his 31 years.  One of the strangest monuments I've come across, complete with palm.  The headstone above marks the grave of Charlotte Hill who died in 1862, she was the only child of the landscape painter and pioneer photographer D O Hill (1802-70) who is buried in the Dean Cemetery.  The Grange is also the resting place of
the pioneer photographer, Ivan Szabo (1822-58). Amongst
those who sat for him was one William Henry Fox Talbot, for
more information on Ivan Szabo go to Peter Stubb's excellent
site on the History of Photography in
Edinburgh.  The inscription on the memorial above reads :
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