Mearns

He died in 1956 in Newton Mearns, in the south of Glasgow, at the home of his daughter Dr Muriel Swanston.

Sunset Song was written in 1932, the first of three books telling the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman who lives and works on her family farm in the Mearns, the farming areas south of Aberdeen.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, who had been raised in the Mearns.

Green councillor Christy Mearns, who introduced the motion, said she was delighted the plan had received cross-party backing.

Then first minister Humza Yousaf was widely praised after he embraced Mr Cowan's grieving mother during a visit to Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue in East Renfrewshire a few days after his death.