The following article was published in The Scotsman (8 November 1897) and concerns a Peter Wishart (WIS0087), a fisherman from Lower Largo, Fife who was awarded testimonial of Royal Humane Society for saving a boy who fell into Largo Harbour. He was the son of David Wishart, another local fisherman, and was married with a large family. He died in 1942, aged eighty.

Scottish Rewards for Gallantry
A case of more recent date (October 2) is that of Peter Wishart, 35, fisherman, of Lower Largo (testimonial) the particulars of which were supplied by Major-General D. Briggs, J.P., and Deputy-Lieutenant of Fife, and supported by other persons of influence. The details show that a boy of tender years fell into the harbour at Largo where at the time the depth of the water was about eight feet. The only notice Wishart had of the occurrence was by seeing the clothing of the child floating on the surface of the water quite eight yards away. No apparatus was at hand, and so, fully attired in his heavy working clothes, he took a “header”, and got the child unconscious to the bank, where after treatment he soon recovered. It is stated that this is not the first time by many that Wishart has saved a life.