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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| FORBES'S MONUMENT | Forbes's Monument Forbes's Monument Forbes's Monument Forbes's Monument Forbes's Monument |
Mr. R. Thomson. Lochead N. Burnet Esq. County Buildings Mr. William Groundwaters Anne Place Courage's Brief Survey of Aberdeen 1856. |
075 | A handsome monument bearing the following inscription " To the memoryof John Forbes of Newe, Aberdeenshire. Formerly merchant in Bombay, who munificently bequeathed the sum of ten thousand pounds sterling for the building of the New Lunatic Asylum. His nephew and executor, Sir Charles Forbes, Baronet of Newe, and Edinglassie, the worthy successor of his uncle in all the virtues of liberality and benevolence, with a munificence shedding lustre on the bequest itself, paid to Government the legacy duty Amounting to one thousand pounds sterling. This pillar was erected by public subscriptions limited in Amount to two guineas each by the inhabitants of the city and county of Aberdeen. |
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