and Waldie. Those who are homeless and die on the street along with several stillborn children (Scots law requires burial not cremation) are buried at the cemetery. The latter are marked by a modern monument giving a place to remember them, in interlocking granite pieces representing mother and child. The inscription reads "to all those children never known but always loved". An abnormally high number of stones are noted as "drowned" or "lost at sea" (see Notable Interments). Notable interments Andrew Peebles Aitken (1843–1904) biochemist Thomas Aitken (1833–1912), Provost of Leith from 1887 to 1893 James Bertram (1816–1861), engineer Rev William Garden Blaikie, (1820–1899) Alan Brebner (died 1890), civil engineer and an associate of lighthouse designers David and Thomas Stevenson. Shipowner Robert Cook (drowned in wreck of SS Roslin in 1888) bronze head by William Brodie George Craig (1852–1927) architect. His wife, Annie Blackie is the oldest person in the cemetery (105). Monument to the three illegitimate children of Sir George de la Poer Beresford Frederick Andrew Fitzpayne (1878–1935) creator of the Leith tram system (Scotland's first electric tram) and then in charge of the combined Edinburgh/Leith tram system A rare female war grave from World War I to E.G.Elder of the Women's Royal Naval Service d.7.7.1918, plus a female war grave from World War II to E.W.L.Fruish, also Women's Royal Navy Service M.P. Galloway (1843–1919), shipbuilder William Gilmour JP FRSE (1843–1905) James Douglas Allan Gray (1902–1993) pathologist Rev Prof James Harper (1795–1879) Dr John Henderson (1819–1901) Provost of Leith 1875 to 1881 and creator of the Leith Improvement Scheme and Henderson Street Lady Elizabeth Campbell Honyman (1784–1874) James Campbell Irons (1840–1910) legal author and geologist Andrew Leslie (1818–1894), shipbuilder Robert Lindsay, pharmacist, co-founder of Lindsay & Gilmour James Logan Mack (d.1939) author Charles Mackinlay (1809–1867) whisky blender George Melrose (d.1896) founder of Melrose-Drover Sydney Mitchell (1856–1930), architect and his father Sir Arthur Mitchell (1826–1909) James Campbell Noble RSA (1846–1913), artist William Notman (1809–1893) architect Thomas Peddie (1844–1911), railway and civil engineer Francis George Pentland (1866–1910) actor better known under the stage name of Frank Worthing (memorial only) George Ogilvy Reid (1851–1928), artist Ornate monument to Thomas Reid, nurseryman (1805–1848) by Hector Heatly Orrock (1831–1862) Prof Edmund Ronalds (1819–1889) chemist Lauchlan Rose (1829–1885) founder of Rose's lime juice Christian Salvesen (1827–1911), Norwegian merchant who settled at Leith and founded the company which now bears his name, also his older brother,