Last 4 words was tosh...he didn't live on Douglas Head...I think the idea is that he is looking towards Scotland.(Its a bit late at night for me!) You'd have to ask his family, really.
He would be amazed at the idea that, in Hawick, he will be standing beside that great hero of his, Jimmy Guthrie...there are two pictures of him, one as a small boy, and the other as an adult, at the Guthrie Memorial on the Isle of Man.