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
Malcolm S. Muir Malcolm S. Muir Dr Malcolm Stewart Muir FRSE (1930-1995) was a 20th century British epidemiologist and "geographic pathologist". Friends and colleagues knew him as Calum Muir. Famed for his cancer research he was a joint founder of the Singapore Cancer Society and served as its Secretary 1964 to 1967. He was born in Sorbie in Wigtownshire on 23 April 1930 the son of the local school headmaster. The family moved to Stirling in central Scotland and he was educated at Stirling High School. He then studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1952. He received placements at the