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Title
Admiral Adam Duncan (1731–1804)
Date
1997
Medium
bronze & stone
Accession number
DD1_DO_S011
Acquisition method
privately funded by the Duncan family
Work type
Statue
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
11 October 1997
Access
at all times
Inscription description
Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan of Camperdown was born in Dundee / on 1st July 1731. In a naval career spanning fifty-four years, he saw / early service in the search for Prince Charles Edward Stuart off the / West Coast of Scotland and afterwards with the / Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, America, West Africa and Cuba. / In his later years, he earned wide respect for his handling of the / serious naval mutiny of 1797 but achieved his greatest fame through / his remarkable defeat of the Dutch fleet under Admiral de Winter / off Camperdown on 11th October 1797, thus thwarting a possible / invasion by French and Dutch troops. / He was made a Viscount on 17th October 1979 and died on 4th / August 1804. In the words of Admiral Lord Nelson ‘The name of / Duncan will never be forgot by Britain and in particular by its Navy.’ This statue was unveiled on the 11th October 1997 by the Earl / of Dundee, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Battle of / Camperdown. / It was funded by private subscription and sculpted by / Janet Scrymgeour Wedderburn
