Colin MacLaurin
The name Colin MacLaurin 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.
Colin MacLaurin was buried in 1746. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Colin MacLaurin is listed on the GPR grave numbered 138427.
Colin MacLaurin is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Colin MacLaurin has the record number 293341 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 Colin MacLaurin (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Colin MacLaurin record:
Eminent mathematician who was elected to a post at the University of Edinburgh on the recommendation of Isaac Newton whose theories he expounded in Scotland before they were current in England. His epitaph translates: I shall not wholly die; my spirit mounting aloft shall smile at the empty honours of verses and tomb.