Sir Walter Scott - Halifax, NS, Canada - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

The monument to Sir Walter Scott was installed in Victoria Park by the North British Society on September 21, 1932. It contains a bronze replica of the bust of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Francis Chantrey that is located in the library at Abbotsford, Scotland.

Walter Scott is depicted from mid-chest up. He is wearing a tartan kilt wrapped around his upper body as a cape and held by a pin on his left side. He is looking towards his left. The bust rest on a circular plinth on top of a 5' high granite pedestal in front of a 10' high granite block wall. Three steps lead up to the pedestal and wall.

The pedestal is inscribed:

The back of the wall is inscribed:

THIS BUST A REPLICA OF THE CHANTREY BUST
IN THE LIBRARY AT ABBOTSFORD WAS ERECTED
BY THE NORTH BRITISH SOCIETY OF HALIFAX
AND WAS UNVEILED BY THE HON. J.A. CHISHOLM
CHIEF JUSTICE OF NOVA SCOTIA ON SEPTEMBER 21, 1932

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 15, 1771. He studied law at Edinburgh University. At age 25, while practicing law, he began writing poetry. He achieved recognition as a poet with the publication of the poem, "The Lay of the Minstrel", in 1805. One of his most popular poems "Lady of the Lake" was published in 1810.

Sir Walter Scott is considered to be the creator of the modern historical novel. He wrote the tale of the 1745 Jacobite rising in the Waverley Novels, which was first published anonymously in 1814. His most famous novels include Rob Roy (1817) and Ivanhoe (1820). Scott was also a playwright - MacDuff's Cross (1823) and non-fiction writer The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (1825–1832).

Sir Walter Scott died of typhus on September 21, 1832 and is interred in Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland.