Plaque
Memorial plaque to Ysobel Stewart
IN MEMORY OF/
YSOBEL STEWART (FASNACLOICH)/
23 NOVEMBER 1882 - 15 OCTOBER 1968/
CO-FOUNDER OF/
ROYAL SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE SOCIETY 1923
Memorial plaque to Jean Milligan
IN MEMORY OF JEAN MILLIGAN LL.D./
(9 JULY 1886-28 1978) CO-FOUNDER OF THE/
ROYAL SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE SOCIETY 1923
Memorial plaque to the Gaelic bard Mary MacPherson
"Moch 's mi 'g eirigh ...
The last home of Mary MacPherson
Mairi Mhor nan Oran
1821 - 1898
Gaelic Poetess and Bard
... air bheagan eislein air madainn Cheitein 's mi ann an Os"
Wall plaque for Mrs Alison Cockburn
MRS COCKBURN 1710-1794 WHO WROTE "THE FLOWERS O' THE FOREST" LIES BURIED NEAR HERE
Alison (Alicia) Rutherford (Mrs Cockburn) (1712-1794) was a renowned wit and society hostess in Enlightenment Edinburgh. Born at Fairnielee (Fernilee), Selkirkshire, she married Patrick Cockburn of Ormiston in 1731. She was widowed in 1753 and moved from Blair’s Close on Castle-Hill to Crichton Street where she entertained many of the most important men of the time, including David Hume, John Hume and Lord Mondobbo. She described the six-year-year-old Walter Scott as being “the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw” (Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott). She was much noted for her abilities as a dancer and for her personal charms.
Her lyrics set to the old air of “Flowers of the Forest,” were probably written before 1731 (Lockhart states 1726). The tune is now more widely known for the lyrics by Jane Eliot.
She was buried, not by her husband, but in the graveyard of the Chapel of Ease (built 1755; later rebuilt as Buccleuch Parish church) by the side of her son, Adam, who predeceased her by 14 years.
Scottish Women's Hospitals in the Great War memorial
This plaque, unveiled on 4th July 2001, by
HRH The Princess Royal
commemorates at the site of their offices, the staff of the Scottish Women's
Hospitals for Foreign Service in their voluntary, heroic and illustrious work
during WW1, many of whom gave their lives in the Great War. On this day,
recognition was granted to these brave women in the city of their origin.
Also honoured are all the women who contributed so much to the
allied cause in the two World Wars.
Memorial plaque to Marjorie Dence
IN AFFECTIONATE
MEMORY OF
MISS MARJORIE L DENCE
M.B.E.,J.P.,
OWNER AND DIRECTOR
OF PERTH THEATRE
1935-1966
The plaque is a large cream coloured stone with a carving of Marjorie Dence's face and shoulders. It is affixed to the wall in the theatre entrance, opposite the box office.
Memorial plaque to Elsie Inglis
THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
ELSIE MAUD INGLIS
1864–1917
FOUNDER, SCOTTISH WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
FEDERATION AND SCOTTISH WOMEN’S
HOSPITALS, GRADUATE OF
THE UNIVERSITY
Plaque marking gravesite of Lady Anne Mackintosh
‘...AMONG THOSE BURIED HERE ...THE JACOBITE HEROINE “COLONEL ANNE” LADY MACKINTOSH, WHO RAISED A REGIMENT FOR PRINCE CHARLIE IN THE 1745 RISING...’
Memorial plaque to Sophia Jex-Blake, University of Edinburgh
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
IN HONOUR OF
SOPHIA LOUISA
JEX-BLAKE
1840–1912
PHYSICIAN, PIONEER OF MEDICAL
EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN BRITAIN,
ALUMNA OF THE UNIVERSITY
Memorial plaque to Sophia Jex-Blake
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SOPHIA LOUISA JEX-BLAKE MD
BY WHOSE ENERGY, COURAGE, SELF-SACRIFICE AND PERSEVERANCE THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE AND THE ART OF HEALING WERE OPENED TO WOMEN IN SCOTLAND
1840–1912