Ernest Marwick
Ernest Walker Marwick (1915-1977) was a Scottish writer noted for his writings on Orkney folklore and history.
Marwick's father was a travelling salesman who had a smallholding in the the parish of Evie, to the north of Mainland, Orkney. Diagnosed with Scoliosis in 1925 when he was ten-years-old, Marwick could no longer attend school as his days had to be spent lying on a wooden board. He used the time of illness to read extensively.[1]
After Marwick's marriage his home provided a meeting-place for local intellectuals, including George Mackay Brown and Robert Rendall.[2] His Anthology of Orkney Verse was published in 1949.[3]
From 1955 to 1960 he was on the staff of the Orkney Herald newspaper. He subsequently moved to The Orcadian, his writing covering literary subjects.[4] Other media work undertaken by Marwick included broadcasting on local and Scottish national radio programmes.[5]:{{{3}}}
Ernest Marwick was a founder member of the Orkney Heritage Society.[6]
He died in July 1977, having swerved off a straight road and crashed into a farm steading when driving.[7] In 2015, one hundred years after his birth, Orkney International Science Festival focused attention on the contributions he made to Orkney's heritage.[8]:{{{3}}}
Selected works
- An Anthology of Orkney Verse (1949)
- The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland (1975)
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- ↑ Fergusson (2006), pp. 91, 92
- ↑ Fergusson (2006), p. 94
- ↑ Murray & Murray (2004), p. 40
- ↑ Murray & Murray (2004), pp. 82, 99
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