Peter David Handyside

In 1858, he founded the Cowgate Medical Mission Dispensary in Edinburgh’s Old Town, aimed at giving relief to the poor (especially Irish Catholic) population in that area of the city.

Under the subsequent leadership of William Thomson, this dispensary was later supplemented by the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society's Training Institution in 1861.

[6] This was all housed in a building designed by Richard Crichton some 50 years earlier, attached to the Magdalene Chapel.

He is buried with his parents in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street.

[8] The grave lies to the south-east of the church very close to the entrance to Princes Street Gardens (screened by the Hamilton vault when approaching from the west).