John Moore
William Clark, The Queen’s visit to the Clyde (1847)
We are all on tiptoe here – so wrote the Glasgow Herald correspondent just prior to the arrival of the monarch on the Clyde in the late summer of 1847. Queen Victoria’s visit to the area was probably the first royal presence in the estuary since the circumnavigation of Scotland by James V to subdue the lords of the Western Isles in 1540 under the guidance of his pilot, Alexander Lyndsay. On that occasion, the king left his fleet at Dumbarton and rode back to Edinburgh.