Greyfriars Bobby Statue

A small bronze Skye Terrier sits atop a granite fountain at the junction of George IV Bridge and Candlemaker Row. This is the statue of Greyfriars Bobby, a dog who lived in Edinburgh during the nineteenth century. Bobby belonged to a night watchman for the Edinburgh City Police named John Gray. When Gray died in eighteen fifty-eight, he was buried in the nearby Greyfriars Kirkyard. The story holds that Bobby spent the next fourteen years sitting by his master's grave, leaving only for food.