Maurice Lindsay CBE

CBE

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

Glasgow

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After serving in World War II

World War II

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 he became a radio broadcaster, also editing the 1946 anthology

Anthology

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 Modern Scottish Poetry

Modern Scottish Poetry (Faber)

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....

, and writing music criticism. He later was Programme Controller at Border Television

Border Television

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His Collected Poems (1974) drew on 12 published collections. He wrote a number of other books, including one on Robert Burns

Robert Burns

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 and a seminal biography of the composer Francis George Scott

Francis George Scott

Francis George Scott was a Scottish composer.Born in Hawick, Roxburghshire, he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts. Educated at Hawick, and at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, he studied composition under Jean Roger-Ducasse...

 and mid-twentieth century Scottish classical music, entitled Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance (1980).

Dr Lindsay was Director of the Scottish Civil Trust, President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Association for Scottish Literary Studies

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 from 1989 to 1993, and was Honorary Secretary-General of Europa Nostra

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Select Bibliography

• Count All Men Mortal The History of the Scottish Provident 1837-1987
• The Castles of Scotland
• The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry (co-edited with Lesley Duncan)

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