Wallace Monument Thomas Carlyle, Hugh Miller, Thomas Chalmers, David Livingstone, and W. E. Gladstone. In 2017 it was announced that Mary Slessor and Maggie Keswick Jencks will be the first heroines to be celebrated in the hall. The original Victorian statue of Wallace stands on the corner of the monument and is by the Edinburgh sculptor David Watson Stevenson. In 1996 Tom Church carved a statue of Wallace called "Freedom", which was inspired by the film "Braveheart". It has the face of Mel Gibson, the actor who played William Wallace in the film. Church leased the statue to Stirling Council, who in
Tom McLaren a contributing author in a global Project Management textbook. Tom McLaren Tom McLaren (born in Stirling, Scotland) is a Scottish former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Warriors at the Flanker position. McLaren joined Glasgow from Penrith Emus Rugby in Sydney, Australia, where he captained the club, aged 20, in the New South Wales Rugby Union Shute Shield competition, under the guidance of Head Coach Scott Johnson. Like his brother James McLaren, he was born in Stirling and moved to Australia when his parents emigrated. The much younger Tom was only 4 weeks old at the time. During one