DO
Hill's Gravestone
Dean
Cemetery, Edinburgh
©
Reproduced
by courtesy of Alan Wilson
David
Octavius Hill is buried, together with his second wife,
sculptress Amelia R Paton (1820-1904) at Dean Cemetery,
Edinburgh. Amelia Paton made this marble bust, and several
further busts of DO Hill and others.
The
inscription below this bust reads:
DAVID
OCTAVIUS HILL, RSA
BORN
1802
DIED 1870
FOR
43 YEARS SECRETARY
OF
THE ROYAL SOCIETY
OF
ARTS.
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