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Malcolm



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject: ELSIE MAUD INGLIS Reply with quote

To the
Beloved and Honoured Memory of
ELSIE MAUD INGLIS
born 1864 died on active service 1917
Surgeon, Philanthropist and Patriot.
A Leader in the Movement for the political emmancipation of women and founder in 1914 of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service.

HORS JANUA VITAE



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Details on the gravestone.



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Death is the gate of [everlasting] life.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Elsie Inglis grave is among the great and the good in Deans Cemetery, West End, Edinburgh.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Elsie Inglis Memorial in St Giles Kirk, High Street, Edinburgh.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

UKNIWM Ref: 44612

OS Map Ref: NT 258 736

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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Elsie Inglis also had a hospital in Edinburgh named after her. It was a maternity hospital for many years but is now flats.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The sculptor Charles Pilkington D'or Jackson's business papers are lodged in the National Library, Edinburgh, Accesssion Number 7445. In Box 2, Files 54 & 58 there are a number of letters concerning Jackson's work which was paid for by the Scottish Women's Hospital for Home and Foreign Service.

Designer was the architect F.C. Mears. asccording to Jackson's press release it was cut from a single block of pale rose coloured stone. The angels are carved in a medieval style and carry the symbols of Faith, Hope and Charity, and he stated the "restrained use of ornament pay an eloquent tribute to the subject by suggesting the simplicity and nobleness of character and leading the mind to connect her with the heroines of the past". According to one of the letters the unveiling was planned for 21/3/1922 but there was nothing else to confirm if this went to schedule.

According to a letter dated 20/1/1921 from Messrs. Galbraith & Winton, Masons of Glasgow they were supplying a pink Burgundian stone for the memorial also known to the French as Rose of St. George stone. I would assume this was the stone used but there is no further correspondance to confirm this.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For what it's worth, I was born in Elsie Inglis' hospital.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Article on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42096350
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