Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby († January 14, 1872 ) was a dog of breed Skye Terrier who became known in the 19th century in Edinburgh, Scotland by the extraordinary loyalty to his master.

Bobby belonged to Constable John Gray and is after his death in 1858, the rest of his life - spent in the churchyard of Greyfriars Kirk at the grave of his master in the Edinburgh Old Town - after 14 years. Supposedly he left the cemetery only for meals at the nearby " Coffee House ". There are contemporary reports that homed to lunchtime onlookers outside the cemetery to watch the dog for his walk to the Coffee House, which he opened every day after firing of the one- clock - gun. Bobby died at the age of 16 years and was secretly funeral as of animals is not permitted there, buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

Dog lovers spread the story of Bobby's loyalty and adorned it probably also - so they attacked an older narrative tradition on, because even in Homer's Odyssey a similar decades of loyalty to the dog Argos attributed to his master Odysseus.

Several books and films are about Greyfriars Bobby, including a novel by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1912 ) and based thereon Walt Disney film Greyfriars Bobby - The True Story of a Dog ( Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, 1961). Also the Lassie movie Lassie in need modeled on the touching story.

In contrast, the historian Jan Bodeson represents from Cardiff University, the thesis that Greyfriars Bobby was a hoax to promote tourism and that it was at the dog in truth two different dogs, none of whom have heard John Gray.

Shortly after the death of the sculptor William Brodie in 1872 created a life-size statue of Greyfriars Bobby, the loyal dog who sat a monument outside a pub in front of the cemetery Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Furthermore, it was in front of the church on the site, is believed to Greyfriars Bobby's grave, a grave stone with the inscription "Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all" ( Let his loyalty and devotion to us to be a lesson to all ) built. Even with cemetery tours of Greyfriars Bobby Walking Theatre or the Greyfriars Kirkyard Trust is reminiscent of the dog.