Charles Alston MD
The name Charles Alston is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Canongate Kirk church burial ground, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 236 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Charles Alston was buried in 1760. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Charles Alston calculated age is 77.
Charles Alston birth is given as 1683.
Charles Alston is listed on the GPR grave numbered 162932.
Charles Alston is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Charles Alston has the record number 348219 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 14 November 2011
There is one image available for the monument listing Charles Alston (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Charles Alston record:
Eminent Botanist Went to Leyden to study botany; returned to Edinburgh; appointed Kings Botanist at Holyrood House;the gardens of which he enriched by large collections made in Holland; appointed Professor of Botany at the College; published several works on botany and materia medica