James Clerk Rattray
The name James Clerk Rattray is not the first name listed on the monument.
The monument is in St John interior interior monuments, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 52 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
No date of death is recorded against James Clerk Rattray entry on the monument.
James Clerk Rattray age is given as 68.
James Clerk Rattray is listed on the GPR grave numbered 255746.
James Clerk Rattray is listed as the relationship not given of William W Newton on the grave monument.
James Clerk Rattray has the record number 549214 within the GPR person name database table.
James Clerk Rattray family name was Clerk (to see all the others with the same family name, just click the name ).
The record was added to the GPR on 30 September 2012
There is one image available for the monument listing James Clerk Rattray (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against James Clerk Rattray record:
Eldest son. Entered on a legal career and admitted to Faculty of Advocates in Scotland in 1785. Purchased mansion house and lands of Bonnington; near Leith. Appointed Sherriff-Depute of Edinburgh in 1793. Inherited house and estate of Craighall-Rattray in Perthshire in 1799; through the relationship of his grandmother. Assumed additional surname of Rattray; which is did not use until 1816/17. Appointed a Baron of Exchequer in 1809. One of the 7 original trustees of St John's responsible for finding the money to purchase the site and build the church. Married on 3rd January 1791 to Jane Duff; she died on 6th July. They were the parents of 2 sons and 1 daughter. James died on 29th August; at Craighall-Rattray although he had been heavily involved in the life of Edinburgh and especially St. John's.