James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

His works include public statues of Robert Burns in Irvine, Lord Byron in Aberdeen, the 3rd Marquess of Bute in Cardiff, John Knox in Edinburgh's St Giles Cathedral, and William Ewart Gladstone in Coates Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh.

After training under Brodie in Edinburgh, Macgillivray worked for nine years in Glasgow as assistant to Mossman and James Steel.

He contributed illustrations to the Spring and Autumn volumes of The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal published by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues in Edinburgh in 1895.

MacGillivray also published two volumes of poetry in Scots – Pro Patria in 1915 and Bog Myrtle and Peat Reek in 1922.

He is buried in the tiny Gogar Kirkyard, close to the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters at Gogarburn, with his wife Frieda who died in 1910.

James Pittendrigh Macgillivray by Benno Schotz 1922
The grave of James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, Gogar Churchyard
MacGillivray's sculpted signature
The William Gladstone Monument, Edinburgh. An example of MacGillivray's work.
Statue of Burns in Irvine
The grave of Alexander and Hugh Allan, shipbuilders, Glasgow Necropolis
memorial to Mrs Oliphant in St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh by Macgillivray