Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson FRSE DL EZS LLD (10 March 1869 – 1 October 1948) was a Scottish chartered accountant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1929 to 1932.
[3] He was succeeded as Lord Provost in 1932 by the automobile engineer William Johnston Thomson.
He retired in 1943 and died on 1 October 1948 at his home at 27 Eglinton Crescent in Edinburgh's West End.
[4] He is buried with his first wife in the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in west Edinburgh.
The hard to read granite monument stands beside a mature silver birch.