This Is My GlasgowFeb 20

A beautiful and poignant sculpture on one side of the base of an otherwise plain obelisk in the Necropolis in Glasgow. The only words on this memorial are 'Beloved Mother', and the name G. Mossman, one of the city's finest sculptors. Some determined digging by the historian Diane Burns, means we can now put a name to this particular mother: Agnes Strang.

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The wife of a merchant and shipowner by the name of Allan Gilmour, she died in childbirth in 1849, aged just 33, leaving behind a newborn and their three older siblings, the children so skillfully sculpted by Mossman for her memorial.

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Feb 20 at 5:06pmWeb