Lord Provost Thomas Hay Marshall...

Escaped the house today for a wee jaunt to Perth.

Wha a lovely day with temperatures peaking at 11 degrees.  Positively tropical!  

Popped into Gillies to pick up the additional arm protectors for the sofa then on to Fat Face to spend a voucher I was gifted.  Into Boots to get new eyeliner then finally M&S food hall to pick up some soda bread (D is obsessed with it) my favourite coffee pods and a pack of pistachio and almond cookies.  Also picked up a pack of their own brand Jaffa cakes....OMG!  They are lush.  Quite small so a perfect little treat when one is trying to be good *polishes halo*

Home and got stuck into crocheting Jen's throw.  Listened to some podcasts.  I am new to podcasts (late to the party I know) as I usually favour listening to music, but I am really enjoying them.  In no time at all the throw was finished.  Just got the giant pom poms to make to finish it off but that's a job for another day. 

D made dinner.  Kitchen Sanctuary's pan fried salmon with creamy lemon orzo and it was absolutely delicious.  Dinner party worthy.  Will definitely have it again.

After dinner settled down to watch an episode of Vera and we both managed to say awake.  Well done us!  :-))

Today's blip is the Marshall Monument beside Perth Art Gallery.  

* Thomas Hay Marshall (1770 – 15 July 1808) was Lord Provost of Perth from 1800 - 1802 and again from 1804 -1806.  

With a passion for Georgian architecture, Marshall is credited with building Perth's "new town" to the north and south of the city centre.  Marshall was involved in the founding of Perth Academy, at its former location in Rose Terrace, and in the design of HM Prison Perth.
A bronze statue of Marshall, designed by David Morison and sculpted by John Cochrane and Brothers in 1822, stands behind four Ionic order columns beside Perth Art Gallery with the Latin phrase cives grati (grateful citizens in English) following his name above the statue.

Marshall married Rosie Anderson on 6 February 1792. The daughter of Thomas Anderson, owner of the Blackfriars land on which Perth is partly built, the Georgian street Rose Terrace, which overlooks Perth's North Inch, is named for her. The couple lived at the corner of Rose Terrace and Atholl Street. Their marriage was brief, Rose having had an affair with Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and a Dr Harrison. Marshall first "raised letters of inhibition" against his wife on 2 June 1796. They divorced in November 1803, although it took two attempts due to Marshall's providing insufficient evidence of said adultery. Even while he was building his case, the defendant was sleeping with several officers, one of whom testified in court that he had "enjoyment of her person".

Marshall died alone and penniless on 15 July 1808, aged 38. *

* Info courtesy of Wiki