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Memorial to Dr William Graham

The taller obelisk in the foreground is the memorial to Dr William Graham; the monument behind it, to the right, commemorates his father-in-law, and is discussed separately (NS4076 : Memorial to Dr William Swan Stuart).

The inscription on the obelisk is as follows:

"Erected by Margaret McCorkindale Stuart in memory of her husband William Graham, F.F.P.S.G., who died 21st Jany. 1877, aged 44 years, and their daughter Helen Stuart, who died 3d Sept. 1863, aged 1 year."

[F.F.P.S.G. = Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow).]

An addition to the base of the memorial notes that Margaret McCorkindale Stuart died at Mount Vernon, New York, in April of 1899. The sculptor is Wagget (probably William Wagget of Glasgow; Doctor Graham himself was a native of Glasgow).