Clement Gunn was one of the most popular and well known figures in the Borders at the end of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth. The Borders was a very different place in 1885 from what it is today. As a country doctor, he saw life in both its best and worst aspects, from the poorest hovels to the great houses of the country gentry.
Covering his practice on horseback and foot, this highly educated man noted and commented with great perception on both the great events that shaped his times and the more intimate details of daily life, from the weather to the death of Queen Victoria, from Belgian refugees arriving in 1914, to his purchase (with great trepidation) of a motor tricycle.
A man of unfailing generosity and compassion who also devoted much of his time to scholarship, this is a moving compendium of a world long gone by one of its most caring and committed observers. It is a world where the harshness of life and the immediacy of death were commonplace and yet in which there was space to celebrate its extraordinary natural beauty. |
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