Memorial to Alexander Allan, Town Clerk
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Memorial to Alexander Allan, Town Clerk
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 10 Dec 2012
The memorial commemorates Alexander Allan, Town Clerk of Dumbarton, and it was erected by his widow, Margaret Denny (d. 1929). The memorial is near the centre of the cemetery, but it stands alongside what would originally have been the northern carriageway of the cemetery, before the latter was extended. Alexander Allan, a native of Glasgow, was born in 1835. When the previous Town Clerk, John Denny (Image), died in 1877, Alexander Allan and John's eldest son Alexander were jointly appointed Town Clerks (they were also brothers-in-law). Alexander Denny died in 1879; from then until his own death in 1890, Alexander Allan alone was Town Clerk. Just to the left of this memorial, but out of shot in this image, is that of his brother-in-law: Image
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55.951776
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