Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1096504
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096504
No. 127 (part).
In the forecourt stands a monument erected in 1834 to the memory of Sir John Hope, fourth Earl of Hopetoun, a hero of the Peninsular War who died in 1823. He had served as Governor of the Bank during the last three years of his life. The monument takes the form of a bronze equestrian statue of the Earl by Thomas Campbell, a local sculptor. The inscriptions on the pedestal, in Latin on the E. side and in English on the W., were composed by Sir Walter Scott.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
