The Rev Norman Miller Johnson FRSE

FSA Scot The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body of Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. The Society's aim is to promote the cultural heritage of Scotland. The usua ...

FEIS A () or () is a traditional Gaelic arts and culture festival. The plural forms are () and (). The term is commonly used referring to Irish dance competitions and, in Scotland, to immersive teaching courses, specialising in traditional musi ...

(1887-1949) was a Scottish minister and academic author.

Life

He studied at

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

where he gained a BSc. Concentrating on education he spent most of his life as Headmaster of Dunfermline Public School. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Wright, Henry Smith Holden, Alexander Condie Stephen,

James Ernest Richey James Ernest Richey (24 April 1886 – 19 June 1968) was an Irish-born geologist. Life He was born on 24 April 1886 in Desertcreat in County Tyrone in Ireland, the son of Rev John Richey, rector of the local church. His later education was at ...

and

James Livingstone Begg James Livingstone Begg (14 September 1874 – 11 August 1958) was a Scottish geologist, paleontologist and artist, awarded the Clough Medal in 1942 and recipient of the Wollaston Fund in 1946. Begg was President of the Geological Society of ...

. He retrained in later life as a minister. He died at the manse at

Eday Eday (, sco, Aidee) is one of the islands of Orkney, which are located to the north of the Scottish mainland. One of the North Isles, Eday is about from the Orkney Mainland. With an area of , it is the ninth-largest island of the archipelago. ...

on Orkney on 1 December 1949.

Publications

*''A Brief Guide to

Dunfermline Abbey Dunfermline Abbey is a Church of Scotland Parish Church in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reforma ...

'' (1933)

References

1887 births 1949 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Manchester Scottish non-fiction writers People associated with Orkney 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Scottish educators Scottish antiquarians Place of birth missing Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 20th-century antiquarians {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub