2011

NS4076 : Memorial to Dr William Graham

taken 12 years ago, near to Bellsmyre, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Memorial to Dr William Graham
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).
Dumbarton Cemetery

The cemetery was formally opened on the 4th of October, 1854, replacing the overcrowded parish churchyard. See the Geograph article "Dumbarton Cemetery" – Link – for a detailed discussion. For biographies of many of those buried here, and for descriptions of their memorials, see Donald MacLeod's "The God's Acres of Dumbarton" (1888), and the same author's "Dumbarton: Its Recent Men and Events" (1898). By 2010, there was concern that Dumbarton Cemetery would run out of space within a decade; New Dumbarton Cemetery – Link – was subsequently created uphill from the existing cemetery, and opened at the end of December 2015.


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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
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Friday, 28 October, 2011   (more nearby)
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Monday, 14 November, 2011
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 4090 7612 [10m precision]
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 4090 7611
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