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Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (July 18, 1848 – January 28, 1938), was a Canadian newspaper publisher. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Graham,_1st_Baron_Atholstan

"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.

William Lever en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Leverhulme whose company became Unilever after his death.

William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, Bt, (19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English Industrialist, philanthropist and colonialist. Lever personified the Northern, nonconformist conscience: he was Liberal in his politics, earnest in his philanthropic endeavors, and committed to social amelioration and moral improvement at home, as typified by Lever’s company town, Port Sunlight. Although attacked for his labor policies in palm oil plantations in the Congo, he was committed to Britain’s “civilizing mission” overseas.[1] Starting with a small grocery business begun by his father, he began making soap in the 1880s. Lever rode the cresting late-Victorian consumer revolution to build a vast industrial empire spread across the globe, with such famous brands as Lux and Lifebuoy. Four years after his death his enterprises were amalgamated as Unilever, which, by 1930, employed a quarter of a million people and, in terms of market value, was the largest company in Britain