Valentine Faithfull

The Reverend Valentine Grantham Faithfull FRSE (25 June 1820 – 30 May 1894) was an English clergyman and a first-class cricketer who played for Cambridge University in 1841.

He was born on 25 June 1820 the son of the Reverend Francis Joseph Faithfull in Bishop's Hatfield.

[3] He served as a curate at Hatfield, where his father was rector, and then from 1848 until his death in 1894 he held posts in Edinburgh, being the incumbent at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Dean Bridge, from 1851 to 1888[3] under Rev David Drummond.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1862, his proposer being the Reverend James Hodson.

The recumbent stone lies east of the large obelisk to the singer, John Wilson (at one of the path junctions).