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Huntershill in Bishopbriggs is the birthplace of Thomas Muir - a Scottish hero, who along with others, fought for Democracy - in a heroic and dramatic way... He was an advocate and political reformer in the late 18th Century. He died at the age of 33 in revolutionary France. He fought for ordinary people to get a vote, and in the process his story is one of heroism and adventure worthy of a film! Part of the Scottish reform movement, a revolutionary hero in America, appointed Minister of The Scottish Republic by the French Revolutionary Government, as well as an inspiration for Robert Burns, a friend of Thomas Paine (who wrote the "Rights of Man"/"Common Sense") and a leading figure of the Scottish Political Martyrs. He was finally restored to the faculty of Advocates, after more than 200 years, in 2020: https://scottishlegal.com/article/father-of-scottish-democracy-thomas-muir-of-huntershill-restored-to-roll-of-faculty   https://www.thenational.scot/news/18565129.r...

A monument by Glasgow artist William Kellock Grown, this monument to Thomas Carlyle, the 19th Century man of letters and translator of the German Romantics and who also wrote a history of the French Revolution. For more information:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Carlyle Statue in Kelvingrove Park Photo: J. Wilson Map Reference: Eurowalk 5 : Around Kelvingrove