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By Hole Ousia Posted on August 9, 2026August 9, 2026

‘Sympathy, fellow feeling . . .’

Earlier this summer I visited Bonskeid to remember Robert Fowler Barbour who died in infancy. He was the first of the family to be buried in the [private] Bonskeid burial … Continue reading ‘Sympathy, fellow feeling . . .’

Categories: Folk worth talking about, History of medicine, Scotland, Time passesTags: Baroness Nairne, Bonskeid, Bristol, Culdee, Dr Robert Freeland Barbour, folk worth talking about, George Freeland Barbour, infant mortality, It was the artful kindness that moved, kindness, Mrs Stewart Sandeman, Pitlochry, psychiatrist, Reverend Robert William Barbour, River Tummel, tombstone, Tuberculosis
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