DEAN CEMETERY TRUST - Key Persons

Sir Thomas Bouch was interred here, just a year after the original Tay Bridge which he had designed, suffered its disastrous collapse and the Cemetery is the final resting place of Samuel Bough, Francis Cadell and JD Ferguson - all three members of the Colourists, that group of Scottish artists who at the turn of the 20th century set alight fireworks beneath the art world. In a unique twist of fate, Lt John Irving was buried here, 30 years after he disappeared in 1849 as a young man on the ill fated Franklin expedition to find the North West Passage, while just a few yards away is the memorial to Robert Anstruther Goodsir, the famous Arctic explorer, who perished on the 1895 attempt to discover what had become of Franklin's men.