Statue of William Wallace, Aberdeen

Sculpted by William Grant Stevenson, the statue is positioned opposite His Majesty's Theatre and across from Union Terrace Gardens.

Renewed attempts to conquer Scotland by Edward were heroically resisted by Wallace, 'til he was treacherously deserted by the Scottish nobility and betrayed by Sir John Monteith.

He was thereupon seized, conveyed to London, and there arraigned as a traitor to the English King, amid mockery and indignity, which, conscious of his integrity, he bore with dignified composure.

On 23rd August, 1305, the great hero was led to Smithfield, and, with Edward as an eye-witness was there put to death, solely for his love of liberty, and his effectual resistance of aggression, and his fidelity to his native land.

On its West facing facade, it reads: "When I was a youth, and under the care of my Uncle, all that I could carry away from him was a single proverb, but it seemed to me above all price, and I never forgot it.