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Lady Stair's Close
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 24 July 2012 - 9:37pm
Revised: 27 August 2012 - 3:39pm admin
Dedicated to:
Date:
renamed Lady Stair's Close after 1719
Location:
Lady Stair's Close (off Lawnmarket, leading to Makars' Court)
Lawnmarket, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 2PA
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Images:
Louisa Augusta Wood
Submitted by admin on 24 July 2012 - 10:18am
Revised: 15 October 2012 - 10:19am Alison McCall
Title:
Dame
Dates:
Born 3rd October 1786, died 19th March 1872
Born in Canada, the daughter of Edmund and Phoebe Fanning.
Her death notice in the Belfast Newsletter 25 Mar 1872, read "WOOD - Mar 19, at Circus, Bath, Lady Wood, relict of the late Commissary-General Sir Gabriel Wood, at an advanced age."
After her death, her sister, Miss Fanning, became a trustee of the Mariner's Asylum in her place.
Plaque to Dame Louisa Augusta Wood
Submitted by admin on 24 July 2012 - 10:18am
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
IN MEMORY /
OF /
DAME LOUISA AUGUSTA WOOD /
[rest of inscription to follow]
Location:
Sir Gabriel Wood Mariners' Home
67 Newark Street
Greenock, IVC, PA16 7TQ
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Helen Roberts Harrison
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 23 July 2012 - 7:21pm
Revised: 23 July 2012 - 7:22pm Margaret Fergus...
Title:
Social Worker, Benefactor
Dates:
05 January 1888 - 1969
Helen was born at 7 Greenhill Place in Edinburgh on 5th January, 1888. Her parents were John Harrision, a Clothier, and Helen Georgina Roberts (m 1879 in Selkirk).
Plaque to Helen R Harrison
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 23 July 2012 - 6:26pm
Revised: 2 October 2013 - 3:26pm Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
THE RESTORATION OF
GLADSTONES LAND
WAS INITIATED BY
HELEN R HARRISON
IN MEMORY OF
HER FATHER JOHN
HARRISON A LOVER
OF OLD EDINBURGH
Material:
stone
Location:
on the wall at Gladstone's Land
Lawnmarket, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 2NT
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Images:
Jessie M King
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 July 2012 - 3:04pm
Revised: 19 November 2014 - 2:32pm admin
Other names:
Jessie M King; Mistress E. A. Taylor; Jessie M. Taylor; Jessie Marion Taylor
Dates:
20 March 1875 โ 3 August 1949
Jessie was born at the Manse in the Parish of New Kilpatrick , Dunbartonshire (now Bearsden, part of Glasgow) on 20th March, 1875, daughter of Reverend James Wat(t)ers King (Church of Scotland Minister at New Kilpatrick Church) and Mary Anne Anderson (married on 6th April, 1869),
Statue of Queen Victoria
Submitted by Alison McCall on 16 July 2012 - 8:55am
Revised: 17 July 2012 - 12:29pm Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
VICTORIA R
1897
DIAMOND JUBILEE
Designed by:
Harry Bates, sculptor
Date:
1899
Location:
Beside the McManus Galleries, Albert Square, Dundee.
Albert Square, Panmure Street
Dundee, DD1 1HU
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Port Ellen Lighthouse
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 4 July 2012 - 9:53pm
Revised: 6 July 2012 - 5:33pm Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
YE WHO MID STORMS AND TEMPESTS STRAY IN
DANGERS MIDNIGHT HOUR.
BEHOLD WHERE SHINES THIS FRIENDLY RAY AND
HAIL ITS GUARDIAN TOWER.
TIS BUT FAINT EMBLEM OF HER LIGHT MY FOND
AND FAITHFUL GUIDE.
WHOSE SWEET EXAMPLE MEEKIN BRIGHT LED
THROUGH THIS WORLDS EVENTFUL TIDE MY HAPPY COURSE ARIGHT.
AND STILL MY GUIDING STAR SHE LIVES IN REALMS
OF BLISS ABOVE.
STILL TO MY HEART BLEST INFLUENCE GIVES AND
PROMPTS TO DEEDS OF LOVE.
TIS SHE THAT BIDS ME ON THE STEEP KINDLE THIS
BEACONS FLAME.
TO LIGHT THE WANDERER O`ER THE DEEP WHO SAFE
SHALL BLESS HER NAME.
SO MAY SWEET VIRTUE LEAD YOUR WAY THAT
WHEN LIFE`S VOYAGE IS O`ER.
SECURE LIKE HER WITH HER YOU MAY ATTAIN THE
HEAVENLY SHORE.
Erected by:
Walter Frederick Campbell (husband)
Designed by:
David Hamilton and Son, Architects
Date:
1832
Material:
stone
Location:
Carraig Fhada at Kilnaughton Bay, across the bay from Port Ellen
Isle of Islay
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Eleanor Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 4 July 2012 - 9:42pm
Revised: 7 July 2012 - 1:16pm Margaret Fergus...
Title:
Lady
Other names:
Lady Eleanor Campbell
Dates:
7th July 1796 - 16th September 1832
Eleanor was born on 7th July, 1796 and baptized on 5th Aug 1796 at Inveresk with Musselburgh, Scotland.
Her parents were Francis Charteris-Wemyss-Douglas, Earl of Wemyss of Gosford House, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (born 15 Apr 1772, died 28 Jun 1853 at Gosford House) and Margaret Campbell of Shawfield, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland (born around 1778, died 25 Jan 1850 at Gosford House). They married on 31 Aug 1794.
Port Ellen, Islay
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 4 July 2012 - 8:47pm
Revised: 6 July 2012 - 5:35pm admin
Dedicated to:
Erected by:
Founded by her husband Walter Frederick Campbell
Date:
1821
Location:
Port Ellen, at Leodamas Bay, Isle of Islay
Port Ellen, PA42
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