Another charming day + almost continuous sunshine+ very little wind. Wrote Fanny1 that I would not be able to visit her. Took a short run to Hindhead + Frensham going round the pond2 + coming back to Hindhead by the Devil’s Jumps.3 Beautiful county. Got back to lunch at 1.30. Changed + went a short run with Mary4 in her new Standard car5 arriving for a garden party at Wakemill, the house of Mr + Mrs Murray Scott (Mrs being one of the Ramsay of Bowland6). Met Dr Winstanley + his wife.7 Dr Lyndon8 called to see Mary as I came back from my run in the morning.
1 Frances Gordon Ord ‘Fanny’ Mackenzie née Rennie (1864-1948), born 1864, Dalkeith, died 21 March 1948. Sometime of Headley Mount, Hampshire, the daughter of the Reverend James Rennie and Catherine Stewart Rennie née Muir – Dr Muir’s aunt – and sister of Jessie.
2 Frensham Great Pond, grid reference NGR SU846,401.
3 The Devil’s Jumps, Churt, near Hindhead, SU866,396.
4 Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-1933), Dr Muir’s sister, widow of James Wallace (d.1922), and living at Scotstoune, Haslemere, Surrey.
5 Standard car, see footnote 3, Dr Muir’s diary entry for 16 July 1923.
6 Helen Gertrude Ramsay (about 1875-1963) of Bowland House, Stow, had married William Murray Scott, sugar refiner, of Richmond, Surrey in February 1913 at Bowland. Mr W Murray Scott was noted as of “Wakemills, Haslemere, Surrey” in the 1921 membership list of the Index Fungorum (The British Mycological Society). She was living at Whitwell Hatch Hotel, Haslemere at the time of her death.
7 Robert Wyndham Winstanley (1858-1925), L.R.C.P. (Edin.) and L.M.; M.R.C.S., medical practitioner, registered 7 February 1883 and in practice at Haslemere, Surrey, and his wife Alice Winstanley née Mott.
8 Arnold Lyndon (1861-1946), O.B.E., M.D., M.B., M.R.C.S., medical practitioner, of Grayshott, Hindhead, Surrey and sometime medical consultant at the Haslemere & District Hospital.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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