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Kilmarnock

Like Glasgow Edinburgh and Dumfries this town has a number of icons dedicated to Robert Burns.

1) Kay Park  2) The new shopping mall and 3) The Dick Institute 4) The Dean Castle museum 5) The Headquarters of The Robert Burns World Federation in the Dower House at Dean Castle

The oldest, and by far the most influential, is in Kay Park

Exact location: Within the confines of a specially built memorial building in Kay Park

Dedication date: 9th August 1879

Unveiled by: Colonel Alexander MP

Artist: William Grant Stevenson
Born: 1842
Died: 1919
Other Burns Related Works:  Statues in Milwaukee, Chicago, Denver and Fredericton, New Brunswick

Model in Tam O'Shanter Inn Ayr 
Most famous work This figure 

 

How funded? Public subscription
Dedication Address by: Colonel Alexander
Acceptance Speech by:  
Newspaper report: Kilmarnock Standard
Archives! East Ayrshire Council
Any public demonstration? Largest public demonstration in history of Kilmarnock
Reported crowd: In thousands
Asserted uniqueness: Poet at the point of composition - To a Mountain Daisy

 

Copies of the dedication address by Col. Alexander are available free on request, as an e-mail attachment.  Copying costs levied as local donation to Salvation Army and postage will be charged for hard copy.

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Shopping Mall, Kilmarnock

The newest shares its pedestal with John Wilson (printer of Kilmarnock Edition)

Dedication date: 27 September 1995

Unveiled by: HRH Princess Anne

Material: Bronze   Foundry: ???

Artist: Alexander Stoddart born 1959

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In the Dick Institute

A model by David Watson Stevenson

    Photo courtesy of East Ayrshire Council

 

In the Dean Castle museum      A model by William Grant Stevenson                                                      Photo courtesy of East Ayrshire Council

 

A model by William Charles McBride

    Photo courtesy of East Ayrshire Council

 

In the Dower House (Headquarters of the Robert Burns Federation Worldwide)

A bust by Guido Giusti

       Photo courtesy of Robert Burns Federation

 

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