Ann Allardyce monument, St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen
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Ann Allardyce monument, St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen
Image: © Bill Harrison Taken: 12 Sep 2015
In the west entrance to the church, the monument commemorates Ann Allardyce (née Baxter) who died from complications of childbirth in 1787. The Allardyce family made their fortune from slave plantations in Jamaica: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/slavery/6p3.htm. The sculptor was John Bacon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bacon_(sculptor). There is an almost identical monument at Widworthy (Devon), but apparently not yet photographed for Geograph...
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57.147546
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