Robert Burns
25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796
Robert Burns is widely regarded as Scotland's national poet. He was born of a farmer in Alloway, Ayrshire. He received little regular schooling and was educated mostly by his father and a . . . — — Map (db m86667) HM
(The historical portion of the marker text is presented first, so as not to be lost beneath the statue donor information:)
Adam Smith lived in Panmure House in Lochend Close and is buried in the Cannongate Churchyard, further down the . . . — — Map (db m85860) HM
Calton Hill
Edinburgh’s First Public Park
Welcome to Calton Hill
Dugald Stewart Monument
Built: 1831
Architect: William H. Mayfair
This monument commemorates another key player of the Scottish Enlightenment, Dugald Stewart. . . . — — Map (db m127021) HM
George Davie (1912 – 2007), philosopher and author of The Democratic Intellect, introduced to each other Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 - 1978), author of the Scots poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, and Sorley MacLean (1911 – . . . — — Map (db m127016) HM
In memory of Robert Louis Stephenson, 1850 — 1894, son and student of Edinburgh.
“ and when I remembered all that I hoped and feared as I pickled about Rutherford’s in the rain and the east wind; how I feared I should make a mere . . . — — Map (db m127015) HM
Scott Monument
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Sir Walter Scott
1771 — 1832
Scottish historical novelist playwright and poet
Timeline
1771 — Walter Scott born on 15 August in Edinburgh
1789-92 — studies law at the University of . . . — — Map (db m127058) HM
The Scott Monument
This plaque and stone commemorate the restoration of the nearby memorial to one of Scotland’s greatest writers Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832).
The Monument was built between 1840 and 1846 with stone from the Binny . . . — — Map (db m127051) HM
The Scott Monument
Erected 1840 – 44 to the Memory of
Sir Walter Scott Bart.
1771 — 1832
Born in Edinburgh, Lawyer and Ardent Patriot,
He Won Enduring Fame as a Romantic Poet and
The Author of the Waverly Novels
This . . . — — Map (db m127055) HM
Upstream, downstream
Suas an abhainn, sìos an abhainn
Look upstream to spot the places among the green spaces.
Highland cathedral Cathair-eaglais Ghàidhealach
St Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral (1874) is the first new cathedral in Britain . . . — — Map (db m127375) HM
Sir Walter Scott loved the Borders landscape, history and people with a passion. He was the most popular writer of his age: when he died his funeral procession was over a mile long. It took his body from his home at Abbotsford to his tomb in . . . — — Map (db m88925) HM
Defeat at the castle seems to have utterly disheartened King Arthur ... The ferocity of the French taunting took him completely by surprise and Arthur became convinced that a new strategy was required if the quest for the Holy Grail were to be . . . — — Map (db m82100) HM
