1. David Cousin was a Scottish architect, landscape architect and planner, closely associated with early cemetery design and many prominent buildings in Edinburgh.
10 Facts About David Cousin
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David Cousin trained as an architect under William Henry Playfair, Scotland's most eminent architect of the time, leaving Playfair's practice in 1831 to set up on his own.
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David Cousin established a partnership with Glaswegian engineer William Gale, and together they won two competitions for the design of the West Church in Greenock and the Parish Church at Cambuslang.
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David Cousin himself was an elder of Pilrig Free Church, which was to his own design and only the second purpose-built church for the Free Church.
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David Cousin lived and worked at 7 Greenhill Gardens in Edinburgh.
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David Cousin employed John Chesser at his City Architect's office at 12 Royal Exchange.
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David Cousin trained John Henderson, Robert Morham and Morham's brother-in-law, John McLachan.
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David Cousin retired to Louisiana in the United States and died there in Baton Rouge in 1878, aged 69.
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On 23 April 1838 David Cousin married Isabella Galloway, the daughter of a tailor.
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David's brother William Cousin was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, latterly in Melrose in the Scottish Borders.