Morris Statue Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders Scotland
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on 05/24/16
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Tour Scotland video of the Morris statue in the East courtyard outside Abbotsford House on the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. Morris is a character from the novel Rob Roy written in 1817 by Sir Walter Scott. John Greenshields was the Scottish sculptor who created the statue of Morris, an excisemen from Rob Roy. Walter Scott Scott was an important patron and admirer of Greenshields who was born in Lesmahagow. Greenshield also sculpted the statue of Prince Charles Edward Stewart on the Jacobite Monument, Glenfinnan in 1835, and The Jolly Beggars in 1835.
