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John Rhind (sculptor)
John Rhind Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, ARSA (1828–1892) was a Scottish sculptor, based in Edinburgh. He was born in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Banff the son of a master mason. He was trained under Alexander Handyside Ritchie (1804–1870). He served this apprenticeship in a yard at 4 East Broughton Place. He was master of the masonic lodge on Hill Street in Edinburgh from 1864 to 1868. He lived his final years at "St Helens" on Cambridge Street, just south of Edinburgh Castle. He died on 5 April 1892 a few days after being elected an Associate of the RSA, and is buried in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh, with a monument by his son John Massey Rhind. The grave lies just off the main southern path, near its centre, facing east on a north-south path. He was the father of the sculptors William Birnie Rhind and J. Massey Rhind, and of the architect Sir Thomas Duncan Rhind. Works * Portrait heads (Victoria, Albert, James Watt, Charles Darwin, Michelangelo, and Sir I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medallion Head Of John Rhind And His Wife On His Grave, Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh
A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be intended to be worn, suspended from clothing or jewellery in some way, although this has not always been the case. They may be struck like a coin by dies or die-cast in a mould. A medal may be awarded to a person or organisation as a form of recognition for sporting, military, scientific, cultural, academic, or various other achievements. Military awards and decorations are more precise terms for certain types of state decoration. Medals may also be created for sale to commemorate particular individuals or events, or as works of artistic expression in their own right. In the past, medals commissioned for an individual, typically with their portrait, were often used as a form of diplomatic or personal gift, with no sense of being an award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museum Of Scotland
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in 1866 as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, renamed in 1904, and for the period between 1985 and the merger named the Royal Museum of Scotland or simply the Royal Museum), with international collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures. The two connected buildings stand beside each other on Chambers Street, by the junction with the George IV Bridge, in central Edinburgh. The museum is part of National Museums Scotland and admission is free. The two buildings retain distinctive characters: the Museum of Scotland is housed in a modern building opened in 1998, while the former Royal Museum building was begun in 1861 and partially opened in 1866, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sighthill Cemetery
Sighthill Cemetery is an active cemetery in central Glasgow, Scotland dating from 1840. It has an operational crematorium. It lies within the Sighthill neighbourhood on the A803 Springburn Road between Cowlairs Park and Petershill Park, north of Glasgow city centre, bounded to the north by Keppochhill Road. History Sighthill Cemetery was laid out on former farmland linked to the Fountainwell Farm in 1839/40.Sighthill Cemetery Gates (Glasgow School of Art Archives) The Glasgow Story The first burial was on 24 April 1840. The cemetery is laid out in an informal pattern with serpentine paths, typical of the first British cemeteries. The cemetery contains 116 war graves. The cemetery itself is a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brodie
William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar in order to support his mistresses and to fund a gambling addiction. Life William Brodie was the son of Francis Brodie, Convenor of Trades in Edinburgh. His father's eminent position allowed William to become the Deacon of Wrights and Masons around 1781.Grant's Old and New Edinburgh, vol1 chapter 12 In 1774, Brodie's mother is listed as the head of household in their Edinburgh home on Brodie's Close on the Lawnmarket. The family (William and his brothers) are listed as "wrights and undertakers" on the Lawnmarket. By 1787 William Brodie is listed alone as a wright living at Brodie's Close. The house was built towards the foot of the close in 1570, on the south east side of an open court, by Edinburgh magistrate William Little, and the close was known as L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Smith (poet)
Alexander Smith (1829/30, probably 31 December 18295 January 1867) was a Scottish poet, labelled as one of the Spasmodic School, and essayist. Life Alexander Smith was the eldest of eight, possibly nine, children born to John Smith (1803–1884) and Christina née Murray (1804–1881). John Smith was a pattern designer for the textile trade; he worked variously in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley and in Kilmarnock, where Alexander was born, before moving to Glasgow when Alexander was about eight years old. When Alexander was still at school, he was stricken by a fever that left him with a squint in one eye. Details of his schooling are sparse, but it is known that it began in Paisley and continued at a school on John Street in Glasgow. There was talk of him being trained for the ministry, but the family's finances required that he leave school at the age of eleven and follow his father's trade in the muslin factory. Alexander was an avid reader, and became co-founder, with lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Cross
upright 0.75 , A Celtic cross symbol The Celtic cross is a form of ringed cross, a Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring, that emerged in the British Isles and Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. It became widespread through its use in the high crosses erected across the British Isles, especially in regions evangelised by Hiberno-Scottish missionaries, from the ninth through the 12th centuries. A staple of Insular art, the Celtic cross is essentially a Latin cross with a nimbus surrounding the intersection of the arms and stem. Scholars have debated its exact origins, but it is related to earlier crosses featuring rings. The form gained new popularity during the Celtic Revival of the 19th century; the name "Celtic cross" is a convention dating from that time. The shape, usually decorated with interlace and other motifs from Insular art, became popular for funerary monuments and other uses, and has remained so, spreading well beyond Ireland. Early history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Square
file:Charlotte Square - geograph.org.uk - 105918.jpg, 300px, Robert Adam's palace-fronted north side Charlotte Square is a garden square in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the New Town, Edinburgh, New Town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The square is located at the west end of George Street, Edinburgh, George Street and was intended to mirror St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, St. Andrew Square in the east. The gardens, one of the collection of New Town Gardens, are private and not publicly accessible. History Initially named St. George's Square in James Craig (architect), James Craig's original plan, it was renamed in 1786 after George III of the United Kingdom, King George III's Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen and Charlotte, Princess Royal, first daughter, to avoid confusion with George Square, Edinburgh, George Square to the south of the Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town. Charlotte Square was the last part of the initial phase of the New Town to be "completed" in 1820 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Sinclair
Catherine Sinclair (17 April 1800 – 6 August 1864) was a List of Scottish novelists, Scottish novelist and children's writer, who departed from the moralising approach common in that period. She is credited with discovering that the author of the initially anonymous Waverley Novels was Sir Walter Scott. Life Catherine Sinclair was born at 9 Charlotte Square in Edinburgh on 17 April 1800, the fourth daughter of Lady Diana Macdonald and Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet. The family lived at 6 Charlotte Square from around 1810, moving later to 133 George Street. Sinclair was her father's secretary from the age of 14 until his death in 1835. From 1814 to 1818 she lived at Ormeley Lodge, Ham, London, Ham. She was an aunt of the novelist Lucy Bethia Walford. Sinclair then began to write independently, her first works being children's books, prompted by an interest in her nephew, the Hon. George Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow. Her story of two anarchic children, in ''Holiday House (novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princes Street
Princes Street () is one of the major thoroughfares in central Edinburgh, Scotland and the main shopping street in the capital. It is the southernmost street of Edinburgh's New Town, Edinburgh, New Town, stretching around 1.2 km (three quarters of a mile) from Lothian Road in the west, to Leith Street in the east. The street has few buildings on the south side and looks over Princes Street Gardens allowing panoramic views of the Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town, Edinburgh Castle, as well as the valley between. Most of the street is limited to Edinburgh Trams, trams, buses and taxis with only the east end open to all traffic. History 18th century The street lies on the line of a medieval country lane known as the Lang Dykes and under the first plan for the New Town was to have been called St Giles Street after the patron saint of Edinburgh. However, when King George III was shown a print or drawing of the proposed New Town by Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Sir John Pringle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fettes College
Fettes College () is a co-educational private boarding and day school in Craigleith, Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus. The school was originally a boarding school for boys only and became co-ed in 1983. In 1978 the College had a nine-hole golf course, an ice-skating rink used in winter for ice hockey and in summer as an outdoor swimming pool, a cross-country running track, and a rifle shooting range within the forested 300-acre grounds.Fettes College Prospectus 1978 Fettes is sometimes referred to as a public school, although that term was traditionally used in Scotland for state schools. The school was founded with a bequest of Sir William Fettes in 1870 and started admitting girls in 1970. It follows the English rather than the Scottish education system and has nine houses. The main building, called the Bryce Building, was designed by David Bryce. The school is included in The Schools Index as one of the 150 best private sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Of Scotland
The Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: ''Banca na h-Alba'') is a commercial bank, commercial and clearing (finance), clearing bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is part of the Lloyds Banking Group. The bank was established by the Parliament of Scotland in 1695 to develop Scotland's trade with other countries, and aimed to create a stable banking system in the country. It was the first bank to be established in Scotland, and is the List of banks in Scotland, oldest operational bank in the country, the List of oldest banks in continuous operation, ninth oldest bank in continuous operation globally, as well as the longest continuous issuer of banknotes in the world. With a history dating to the end of the 17th century, the Bank of Scotland was the first bank to have been established in Scotland, and, it is the List of oldest banks in continuous operation, fifth-oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom (the Bank of England having been established one year earlier). It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
