Greyfriars Bobby
The name Greyfriars Bobby 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.
Greyfriars Bobby was buried in 1872. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Greyfriars Bobby age is given as 16.
Greyfriars Bobby calculated year of birth is 1856.
Greyfriars Bobby is listed on the GPR grave numbered 138516.
Greyfriars Bobby is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Greyfriars Bobby has the record number 293808 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 Greyfriars Bobby (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Greyfriars Bobby record:
Died at the age of 16 in 1872 The stone was dedicated to the faithful Skye terrier in 1981 by the Dog Aid Society In 1867 Bobby legally regarded as a stray was saved from being put down by the Lord Provost William Chambers who paid for his licence and bought him a collar and a bowl Baroness BurdettCoutts was so impressed by Bobbys story that she ordered a bronze statue of Bobby to be incorporated in a drinking fountain and to be placed on the corner of the street just opposite the church gates