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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.

Is it a Monocle of some kind..

I'm pretty sure she's holding a lorgnette. If you look at the larger view you can see part of the glasses.

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Михаил Михайлович; 16 October 1861 – 26 April 1929) was a son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III of Russia. He followed a military career, but was banished from living in Russia when in 1891 he contracted a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie of Merenberg. He spent the rest of his life living in exile in England and in the French Riviera, escaping the Russian Revolution. His two daughters married within the British aristocracy. Countess Sophie of Merenberg, Countess de Torby, (1 June 1868 – 14 September 1927) was the eldest daughter of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau and Natalya Alexandrovna Pushkina. Note the spelling "Torby". Their daughters Nada & Zia:

trialsanderrors, thanks for correcting the spelling and giving us more information on their full names. We will update our records.

A cropped version of this photo ran in The Sunday Oregonian, July 13, 1913, SECTION FIVE, Image 59 with the caption: "The Grand Duke Michael is almost better known in England and Prance now than he is in his native Russia. He has been an exile from Russia be cause of his marriage. Like many of the Russian Grand Dukes, he found someone outside the court circle to love, and he married her. Such things are not unknown In other countries, but nowhere are they visited with such strict punishment as In Russia. The Grand Duke was practically banished. This was small punishment for him. The Russian Grand Dukes have always looked for their amusement in Paris rather than in St. Petersburg. The Grand Duke Michael, since his exile, has established a home in England and he spends much of his time In Paris and on the Riveria. His wife is ac counted one of the most beautiful women in continental society. She is known everywhere as the Countess Torbay." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1913-07-13/ed-1/se...

Leland Foreman Noble (1897-1992), Naval Aviator No. 2104. See: www.findagrave.com/memorial/120881114/leland-foreman-noble

Leland was a brother of the New York Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity at Cornell. While at Cornell, he enlisted as a Seaman Second Class and had that rank while in what appears to be basic training (boot camp) in APR 1917, by MAY 1918 he was commissioned an Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve Forces. He spent all of his WWI service as an aviation training at MIT and bases in Florida. By the start of WWII, Leland was serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Reserve. Leland retired from the Navy at the age of 60 in JUN 1957. Source: SigEp Patriots Project Source: Sigma Phi Epsilon Source: U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985; OCT 1984 Source: New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919 Source: Cornell University Yearbook, 1919

See also: Cornell Alumni News, Vol. XXI, No. 30, May 1, 1919, Page 359.

'19 - Ensign Leland F. Noble is an instructor in Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida. He enlisted in the Navy in April 1917, and after five months of sea service, was transferred to the Naval Aviation Service, in September 1917. Since that time he as been instructing in all branches of naval aviation, first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then at Miami, Florida, and lately at Pensacola, Florida. He has held the rank of ensign for nearly a year, and has been retained permanently in the Naval Aviation Service.