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Titanic Engineers' Memorial in Glasgow. A memorial to thirty-six engineers aboard Titanic is located in the offices of the Scottish Opera at 39 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow – formerly the headquarters of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, whose members funded the memorial.
[a] The Duff-Gordons were, by descent, a Scottish aristocratic family. In 1900, Duff-Gordon married the celebrated London fashion designer "Madame Lucile" (née Lucy Christiana Sutherland, then Mrs. James Stuart Wallace). This was a slightly risqué union, as Lucy was a divorcée whose sister, Elinor Glyn, was a notorious romance novelist.
The building at 39 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow was commissioned and built in 1906–08 and was designed by J.B. Wilson. In the foyer of this building, there is a memorial to the 36 engineers who died on RMS Titanic. The marble and bronze memorial was subscribed by members, designed by the sculptor William Kellock Brown, and
John Law "Jock" Hume (9 August 1890 – 15 April 1912) was a Scottish violinist. [31] Hume was born on 9 August 1890 in Dumfries, Scotland and lived with his parents at 42 George Street, Dumfries. [31] He had already played on at least five ships before the Titanic, and was recruited to play on its maiden voyage due to his good reputation as a ...
The Titanic Musicians' Memorial is a memorial in Southampton, United Kingdom, to the musicians who died in the RMS Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912. The original Titanic Musicians' Memorial was unveiled by the Mayor of Southampton, H Bowyer on 19 April 1913, and was located in the old Southampton library.
Balmoral, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines You have to be a certain type of cruise passenger to want to duplicate the route of the Titanic, apparently. A "Titanic Memorial Cruise", scheduled on the 100th ...
Scottish Opera has also staged many successful productions abroad, including Albert Herring in Florence, [6] Egisto (opera) in Venice, [7] tours in Germany, Austria, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Iceland and recent years including Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde in Lisbon; Macbeth at the Vienna International Festival and the European premiere of MacMillan's Ines de Castro ...
Gordon Brown and John Swinney were among Scottish political figures who remembered Alex Salmond at a memorial service in Edinburgh on Saturday, 30 November. The former Scottish first minister died ...