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David Johnston, minister of North Leith Parish Church, is buried here in North Leith Graveyard next to his second minister and long-time companion, Rev W E Ireland. As well as working on behalf of his parishioners, Dr Johnston was a social reformer and philanthropist in a wider sense, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Magdalen Home for Unmarried Mothers and the Asylum for the Industrious Blind which exists today as the Royal Blind School. Dr Johnston died in 1824.