John McCosh (1805-1885) was a Scottish Army surgeon who pioneered documentary war photography in India and Burma.
His photographs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) of people and places associated with the British rule in India (for which he is best known), and of the Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853), count as sufficient grounds, some historians maintain, to recognise him as the first war photographer to be known by name. There is a memorial to him in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
John’s son Dr. David McCosh occupied the farmhouse at Corntonvale from 1897 – 1901.
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