David Cousin

[2] Initially he trained under his father as a joiner, but went on to study mathematics with Edward Sang.

He employed John Chesser at his City Architect's office at 12 Royal Exchange.

Although buried in the United States he has a memorial in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh where the remainder of his family lie, including his wife, Isabella.

The memorial stands on the west side of a north-south path, just north of the large Highlanders monument.

David's brother William Cousin (1812-1883) was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, latterly in Melrose in the Scottish Borders.