Robert Milne Murray

Robert Milne Murray FRSE FRCPE FRSSA (6 May 1855 – 14 February 1904) was a Scottish surgeon and medical author.

Specialising in gynaecology he ran the Edinburgh Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Hospital, He was the first medical Electrician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but refused to patent any of the devices which he created and instead openly showed the apparatus to vising European colleagues to be freely copied.

After some time assisting Prof Matthew Forster Heddle he went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine graduating with an MB ChB in 1879.

[3][4] His final years were spent at 13 Chester Street in Edinburgh's West End, a mid-terraced Victorian townhouse.

[6] The grave lies on the northern path of the first north extension, on the edge of the north-west section.