Edinburgh’s most famous and best loved canine character, Greyfriars Bobby was the faithful Skye terrier who belonged to John Gray, a city night watchman.
After Gray died and interred in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, an inconsolable Bobby is said to have spent the next fourteen years sitting beside his master’s grave, all the while lovingly tended and cared for by locals, until his own death on January 14, 1872.
He was buried just inside the gate of the kirkyard, not far from his master’s grave.