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Lady Lovat Primary School
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 August 2013 - 8:13pm
Revised: 4 August 2013 - 8:17pm Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
None
Date:
1915
Location:
Lady Lovat Primary School
Morar, PH41 4PA
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Additional information:
School website:
http://www.ladylovatprimaryschool.co.uk/
Laura Fraser
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 August 2013 - 8:13pm
Revised: 12 August 2013 - 11:31am admin
Title:
Lady Lovat
Other names:
Prior to her marriage she was the Hon. Laura Lister
Dates:
12 Jan 1892- 24 March 1965
Laura Lister was born in 1892, the daughter of Thomas Lister, Lord Ribbesdale, and his wife Charlotte Tennant. Her portrait was painted by Sergent in 1896. She married Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat in 1910. He was twenty years her senior. The couple had five children, 2 sons and 3 daughters.
Lady Lovat was interested in the social welfare of the Highlands. She laid the foundation stone of the school which bears her name in 1914, returning to open it in 1915.
Her husband died in 1933 and her youngest child in 1940. She died in 1965.
Grannie's Heilan Hame
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 August 2013 - 2:56pm
Revised: 4 August 2013 - 2:58pm Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
None
Location:
Grannie's Heilan Hame
Embo, IV25 3QD
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The house was originally known as "Boston" and was renamed "Grannie's Heilan Hame" once the song became popular.
Ann MacKay
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 August 2013 - 2:56pm
Revised: 3 August 2020 - 12:49pm Alison McCall
Other names:
Her married surname was Cumming.
Dates:
c1858-
Ann MacKay was born in Dornoch around 1858, the daughter of George MacKay, Fisherman, and his wife Elizabeth Matheson. She married Embo fisherman Adam Cumming in 1876. The couple both signed their marriage certificate with a cross, indicating that they were illiterate.
The couple had nine children, seven of who survived into adulthood. All seven children emigrated to Boston, U.S.A. at different times. One daughter, Maggie Jessie Cumming married songwriter Tom Macfarlane. Tom Macfarlane wrote the song "Grannie's Heilan' Hame", in which Ann MacKay or Cumming was immortalised as "Grannie."
Memorial to Flora Murray
Submitted by Fiona Dean on 31 July 2013 - 8:58am
Revised: 19 August 2013 - 11:35am admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
In memory of Flora Murray, Daughter of /
John Murray of Murraythwaite, Commander, R.N. /
Born 8th May 1869. She Graduated at London University /
in 1902. D.P.H. Cambridge 1905. On the outbreak of War, she /
formed and took to France a complete Women's Voluntary /
Hospital Unit. In May 1915, at the request of H.M. War Office, /
she opened the Military Hospital, Endell Street, which command /
she held until it closed in Oct. 1919, with the military grade /
of Lieutenant-Colonel. She died 28th July 1923, and is buried /
at Penn in Buckinghamshire.
Material:
Brass
Location:
Dalton Parish Church
DGY, DG11
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Flora Murray
Submitted by Fiona Dean on 31 July 2013 - 8:48am
Revised: 4 August 2016 - 9:08pm Margaret Fergus...
Title:
Dr
Dates:
1869 - 1923
Flora was born at Murraythwaite in Dumfries on 8 May 1869. Her parents were landed propietor John Murray, a Captain in the Royal Navy, and Grace Harriet Graham.
Flora was a medical pioneer and a suffragette, becoming a member of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1908. She trained at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW), finishing her course at Durham.
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Maggie Keswick Jencks
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 July 2013 - 7:23pm
Revised: 23 July 2013 - 8:06pm Margaret Fergus...
Other names:
Margaret Keswick, Mrs Charles Alexander Jencks
Dates:
10th October 1941 - 8th July 1995
Margaret, who was known as Maggie, was born at Cowhill Tower near Dumfries on 10th October 1941, only child of Sir John Henry Keswick and Clare Mary Alice Elwes (married 17.01.1940 at Westminster Cathedral). She was brought up in Scotland and the Far East where her father was part of the Scottish business empire, Jardine, Matheson & Company. Maggie read English at Oxford, after attending school in Woldingham, Surrey.
Maggie was...
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Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 July 2013 - 7:23pm
Dedicated to:
Erected by:
The Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust
Tree and bench memorial to Sue Findlay
Submitted by Alison McCall on 11 July 2013 - 8:41am
Revised: 11 July 2013 - 9:16am Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
On the tree - In memory of Mrs Sue Findlay, a leading light in Girlguiding for many years.
On the bench - Mrs Sue Findlay, a true friend of Guiding.
Erected by:
Girlguiding Gordon
Date:
2013
Location:
Kellands Park
Inverurie , AB51 5JN
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Sue Findlay
Submitted by Alison McCall on 11 July 2013 - 8:41am
Revised: 16 July 2013 - 12:21pm admin
Other names:
Her maiden name was Bruce.
Dates:
1946-2012
Sue Findlay was successively a Brownie leader and a Guide leader in Inverurie. In addition she held posts as Guiding development advisor, outdoor advisor and Gordon County secretary, Division Commissioner, District Commissioner and District Assistant. Her can-do attitude and enthusiasm for camping and the outdoors was infectious and she spent hundreds of nights away from home on camps.
She was married to Max and had children and grandchildren.
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