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To Be Remembered ...

To Be Remembered ...
For this week's Sunday Challenge, which had the theme of faces.

This marble carving formed part of a memorial I came across whilst walking around the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral in Scotland last week.

It marked the spot where the mortal remains of Adam Ferguson, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, were laid to rest.

He was born way back on the 20th of June, 1723 and died in St Andrews on the 22nd of February, 1816 ... amazing to think then that this monument is now over 200 years old!

There's a shot of the inscription in the Notes although I'm afraid the text is slightly eroded and difficult to read in parts.

And if this has made you want to know more about the man you could start by checking him out on Wikipedia, though I'm not too sure what he himself would make of that suggestion:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ferguson

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, Don Sutherland, Pam J, Karen's Place and 4 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Karen's Place
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That's good. Hopefully Scotland will soon recover from your visit. ;)
7 years ago.
 autofantasia
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I thought so Gillian ... the inscription in particular gives a real insight into how language alone has changed in the last 200 years! :)
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 autofantasia
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:(
7 years ago.
 Karen's Place
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Because they miss you so much, silly. ;) xo
7 years ago.
 autofantasia
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:)
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