MEMORIAL TO KING EDWARD.
HOLYROOD SCHEME FAVOURED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 31st January. The general committee of the Scottish national memorial to King Edward, by 25 to 11, has recommended the Holyrood Palace scheme. The minority favoured the establishment of consumptives' sanatoria. SOME OF THE PROPOSALS. Altogether the King Edward Memorial Committee- received 164 suggestions for memorials to the late King. It was understood that those had been reduced to four — A historical museum, Lord Avebury's proposal for a central hall for the University of London, Lord Eversley's scheme for an annexe to Westminster Abboy, and the acquisition of tho Costal Palace. Lord Northcote, formerly Governor-General of India, •lugges'ted an endowment for tropical research. The Holyrood scheme, suggested by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, was to restore the ancient Palace to .such, a state as to fit it for a Royal residence, so that the King and Queen might have a fit habitation m the Hcottith capital. Local memorials of the late King have been decided on at a large number of towns in the Old Country. A fund has been opened in the Mansion House to erect a statue of King Edward in London, at a cost of from £50,000 to .-J7O,O'JO.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1911, Page 7
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205MEMORIAL TO KING EDWARD. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1911, Page 7
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