John Porteous
The name John Porteous is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Greyfriars private cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 466 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
John Porteous was buried in 1736. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
John Porteous is listed on the GPR grave numbered 138377.
John Porteous is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
John Porteous has the record number 293035 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 23 June 2011
There is one image available for the monument listing John Porteous (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against John Porteous record:
Porteous was Captain of the Town Guard who ordered his troops to fire on a rioting mob after a public execution He was tried and condemned to death but later reprieved The people of Edinburgh were enraged and he was seized from the Tolbooth and taken to the Grassmarket where he was hanged on a dyers pole The scene was described by Sir Walter Scott in Heart of Midlothian The memorial stone was placed in the Kirkyard in 1973