Hershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… Herschel] is the Herschel obelisk. On 28 November 1838 the Cape Governor, Sir George Napier, presided over a public … raised by donations from the friends of the Herschels in Cape Town. The stone for the memorial was quarried at Craigleith, near Edinburgh, and shipped to the Cape, where it was erected in 1841. The piece of ground …