Plaque
Memorial to Jeanie Donnan
This plaque is a tribute/ to the memory of/ Jeanie Donnan,/ the Galloway poetess,/ who lived here.
Born at Gatehouse of Flee/ 19th November 1866/ she died here 14th May 1942
Picture available in Flikr (Jeanie Donnan)
Plaque to Florence Horsbrugh
Florence Horsbrugh
MP & social campaigner
1889-1969
Number 16 on the Dundee Women's Trail.
Plaque to Lila Clunas
LILA CLUNAS
SUFFRAGETTE AND TOWN COUNCILLOR
1876-1968
This is plaque no. 9 on the Dundee Women's Trail.
Mortification Board commemorating Katherine Forbes, Lady Rothiemay
1642 Katheren Forbes Lady Rothiemay mortified an Thousand Pounds Scots money for maintaining a Mistress of a School at Aberdeen for teaching young women to read and sew.
Mortification Board commemorating Barbara Forbes
1647 Barbara Forbes, widow and relict of Mr William Johnston, professor of Mathematicks in the Marischal College of Aberdeen did mortify her said husband's haill mathematical books and instruments to the Bibliotheck.
Mortification Board commemorating Marion Douglas
1633 Marion Dowglas, Lady of Drum, widow and relict of the forsaid Alexander Irvine of Drum did mortifie three thousand merks Scots for maintenance of poore widowes and aged virgens of the town of Aberdeen. Item she left in legacy three hundred merks for building or buying an house for them.
Plaque to Sarah Weideman
Site of
birthplace
in 1772 of
Sarah Weideman
Mother of
Robert Browning
There is a photograph and further details at
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=546&2152
Plaque to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Mary Shelley)
On this site stood
the cottage
(mentioned in Frankenstein)
visited by
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
1812-1814
There is a photograph of the memorial at
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=546&2151
Brass plaque commemorating "Mrs Andrew Carnegie."
The lighting in this cathedral
was given in memory of
MRS ANDREW CARNEGIE
of Skibo
by her daughter and her family
October 1949
War memorial in Dornoch Cathedral
Served with the Forces