Pennyfuir Cemetery

Pennyfuir Cemetery
The cemetery in 2006, looking north to Lochan Dubh
Details
Established	19th century
Country	Scotland
Coordinates	56.4287°N 5.4616°W / 56.4287; -5.4616
Find a Grave	Pennyfuir Cemetery

Pennyfuir Cemetery is a cemetery in Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was established in the 19th century.^[1]

The cemetery contains 23 graves from the First World War and 58 from the Second World War.^[1][2] Four of the Second World War graves are of airmen who died in the Dunbeath air crash which killed Prince George, Duke of Kent, on 25 August 1942.^[2] In the centre of the war cemetery stands the Cross of Sacrifice, constructed from white Portland stone.^[2]

Notable burials

• David Hutcheson (1799–1880), shipbuilder^[1]
• Peter Macnab (1812–1892), architect and joiner^[3]
• Frances Shand Kydd (1936–2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales^[4]

References

1. Pennyfuir Cemetery – Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Francis Hindes Groome (1901)
2. Oban (Pennyfuir) Cemetery – Commonwealth War Graves
3. The Edinburgh Gazette, 7 November 1893, p. 1166
4. "Earl Spencer denies family rift" – The Guardian, 10 June 2004