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"Let His Loyalty and Devotion be a Lesson to Us All" Bobby was a Skye Terrier whose master, John Gray, died in 1858. Bobby was so devoted to his master that for fourteen years Bobby lay on the grave in Greyfriars Cemetery , leaving only for food. Baroness Angelia Georgina Burdett-Coutts, President of the Ladies Committee of the RSPCA, visited Edinburgh on several occasions to see Bobby. The Baroness received permission from the City Council to erect a granite fountain with a statue of Bobby on top by the graveyard as a lasting memorial to the loyal little terrier Bobby. The original sculpture is in the Museum of Edinburgh. Greyfriars Bobby -- Download the classic 1912 book by Eleanor Atkinson from the ManyBooks.net website. (Digitized by Project Gutenberg.) Greyfriars Bobby -- 1961 Disney movie by Internet Movie Database Greyfriars Bobby -- Movie released in the UK in 2006 Greyfriars Bobby -- Website

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

How weird. I was just reading about Greyfriars Bobby last night in my daughter's school book!

Superb, thank you for sharing this fine work

Wow. I didn't know anything about this until I saw this photo. What a touching story.

John Brown was the servant who became close to Queen Victoria after the death of Prince Albert. Their relationship was the subject of the 1997 movie "Mrs. Brown," starring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly. "Much gossip attached to the unlikely relationship and much animosity generated by those who resented the trust placed in the 'low-born' Brown by the Queen. The Queen refused to desert Brown because of the scandalous talk - which she dismissed as 'ill-natured gossip' " From the Royal Deeside website: John Brown, Faithful Servant to Queen Victoria --

Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commonsgroup, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool! -- Seen in a discussion of Flickr Commons. (?)

Wow, i'd never seen a photo of John Brown before, only heard the story.

He looks as though his glare could melt the film, as if the photographer is intruding. Which I guess would fit the story as we know it.

To see these two! It is totally a smashing photograph!

I took a picture from this very spot...in 2003. Love the mishmash of architecture in the building on the left.

Fantastic image, thanks for posting I must go and take one from here today.

I recognized it immediately as Cowgate!

This photograph has been discussed in the Flickr Commons group in Edinburgh: Then & Now

Hi, this photo was used in a Then and Now project about Edinburgh in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group!