Maurice Lindsay

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(21 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was a Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet. He was born in

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. He was educated at

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where he was a pupil from 1928-36. In later life, he served as an honorary governor of the school. After serving in

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, with the 7th Cameronians, he became a radio broadcaster, also editing the 1946

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Modern Scottish Poetry ''Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945'' was a poetry anthology edited by Maurice Lindsay, and published in 1946 by Faber and Faber. It covered the Scottish Renaissance literary movement in Scotland, featur ...

'', and writing music criticism. He later was programme controller at

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. In 1962, Scottish composer

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set five of his children's poems in Scots to music for voice and piano, in a song cycle called ''A Suite o Bairnsangs''. His ''Collected Poems'' (1974) drew on 12 published collections. He wrote a number of other books, including one on

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and a seminal biography of the composer

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and mid-twentieth century Scottish classical music, entitled ''Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance'' (1980). Dr Lindsay was director of the

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, president of the

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from 1989 to 1993, and was honorary secretary-general of

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Select Bibliography

* ''The Discovery of Scotland'', Robert Hale, 1964, * ''As I Remember: Ten Scottish Authors recall How Writing Began for Them'', Editor, Robert Hale, 1979, * ''

and the

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'', Paul Harris, 1980 * ''Count All Men Mortal: A History of Scottish Provident 1837 - 1987'', Canongate Press, 1987, * ''Scottish Comic Verse'', Editor, Robert Hale, 1981, * ''The Castles of Scotland'', Constable & Robinson, 1986, * ''The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry'' (co-edited with Lesley Duncan), Edinburgh University Press, 2005,

Reviews

* Ross, Raymond J. (1980), ''Prophet Unhonoured'', review of ''Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance'', in ''

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'' No. 4, Winter 1980-81, p. 37, * Donaldson, William (1981), review of ''Scottish Comic Verse'', in Murray, Glen (ed.), ''

'' No. 6, Autumn 1981, p. 43

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* * * 1918 births 2009 deaths Mass media people from Glasgow People educated at the Glasgow Academy British Army personnel of World War II Cameronians officers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Scottish television executives Scottish broadcasters Scottish Renaissance Scottish biographers 20th-century Scottish poets Scottish male poets 20th-century biographers Lallans poets 20th-century British male writers 20th-century Scottish businesspeople Male biographers {{Scotland-writer-stub