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
Stirling Silliphant in Warner Bros's accounts.) His last screenplay was for the 1995 film "The Grass Harp". Silliphant had a child, Lauren (d. 1968), with actress Patricia Wymore. In 1974, Silliphant married Tiana Alexandra Du Long, with whom he had two children, Stirling and Dayle. He died in 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand, where he had resided since 1988. His work papers are archived at UCLA's Westwood campus. Stirling Silliphant Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his screenplay for "In the Heat of the Night", for which he