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In 2021 a new monument to mark the 150th anniversary of the dog’s death was placed close to the east wall of Greyfriars Kirk. This was ordered by Robbie Beattie, a senior manager with Edinburgh City Council's Bereavement Service. No consultation or conventional commissioning process was undertaken,
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that relocated the events of the tale to Edinburgh a year after Auld Jock's death, attributing the old man's death to his being evicted by Scrooge. Bobby is depicted in the play by a puppet, and is shown to be friends with Tiny Tim (also portrayed by a puppet); Scrooge's vision of the future sees
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than a Skye terrier as is generally supposed. The claim was made by Mike Macbeth, president of the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club of Canada. Macbeth pointed out that the dandie dinmont terrier was extremely popular in Scotland at the time, with some 60 breeders in the Edinburgh area, whereas skye
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after Tiny Tim's death means there is nobody to warn Bobby. The play concludes with Scrooge using a gift left behind by the Spirit of Christmas Nooadays (the Scots equivalent of the Ghost of Christmas Present) to provide Bobby's licence, thus protecting him from the
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claimed that John Gray was a farmer who regularly visited his coffee house at the one o'clock gun, though this might have been embellished as Traill didn't own the coffee house until four years after John Gray died. Gray reportedly died of
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A common discussion is over which of two people named John Gray was the real owner of Bobby (one being a night watchman and the other a farmer). In Councillor McLaren's account, Mr Traill in 1871 had spoken about John Gray the farmer.
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number 47711 was named "Greyfriars Bobby" in 1981. One of the original nameplates now sits above the sales counter at Harburn Hobbies model shop in Edinburgh.
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on 13 May 1981. The monument reads, "Greyfriars Bobby – Died 14 January 1872 – Aged 16 years – Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all".
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for spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until he died on 14 January 1872. The story continues to be well known in
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in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Bobby then became known locally, spending the rest of his life sitting on his master's grave.
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Macgregor, Forbes "Greyfriars Bobby: The Real Story at Last" Steve Savage Publishers Limited, 2nd Revised edition, (2002),
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newspaper on 8 February 1889 (part of the debate referred to by McLaren), both from people claiming close links to
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The accuracy of stories of Greyfriars Bobby has been challenged many times: for instance, in Forbes Macgregor's
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was charmed by the story and had a drinking fountain topped with Bobby's statue (commissioned from the sculptor
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Greyfriars Bobby's headstone, the headstone was erected by The Dog Aid Society of Scotland and unveiled by the
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Association said "There are guys wandering around there totally out of their mind. You can't control that."
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The 1902 historical account, "The True Story of Greyfriars Bobby" by Henry T. Hutton, Publisher: Edinburgh
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was cast as Bobby, and that new characters were added while one of the major characters in Bobby's life,
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embellished the story and made John Gray a shepherd, known as "Auld Jock". The 1961 Walt Disney film
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Greyfriars Bobby's Bar, a pub located on the ground floor of the Candlemaker Row's houses.
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John Gray (died 15 February 1858) commonly known in popular culture as Auld Jock, was a
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who came to Edinburgh in 1850 with his wife Jess and son John. He avoided working in a
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and Candlemaker Row (opposite the entrance to the churchyard) to commemorate him.
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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration
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According to a book published in 2022, Bobby was more likely to have been a
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Questions about the story's accuracy are not new. In a newspaper article in
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Bobby is said to have sat by the grave for 14 years. He died in 1872 and a
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In January 2018, his grave was toppled by vandals. George Robinson of the
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Guarding the grave of his owner until he died himself on 14 January 1872
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Greyfriars Bobby: The Most Faithful Dog in the World, J Bondeson
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of Bobby sits at the corner of Edinburgh's Candlemaker Row and
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The best-known version of the story is that Bobby belonged to
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Brassey, Richard "Greyfriars Bobby" Orion Childrens, (2010),
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Memorial to Bobby in Greyfriars Kirkyard, erected in 2021
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banking family. The monument is Edinburgh's smallest
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Greyfriars Bobby: The Most Faithful Dog in the World
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Greyfriars Kirkyard
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Greyfriars Kirk
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Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Museum of Edinburgh
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