Poet
Records tagged with Keywords: Poet
Judith Mary MacGregor
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 21 October 2012 - 6:24pm
Revised: 22 October 2012 - 9:47am — admin
Title:
Lady
Other names:
Mrs David Steel, Mrs Judith Steel, Lady Steel, Judy
Dates:
born 1940
Judith Mary MacGregor was born in Dollar, Clachmannanshire in 1940. She studied Law at Edinburgh University and had a short legal career.
In 1962 she married David Martin Scott Steel (born 31 March 1938) whom she met a university. He is a politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Lord (Baron) Steel of Aikwood and now Life Peer in the House of Lords. They have 3 children: Graeme, Catriona Judith born 1967 and Rory, as well as an adopted son William (Billy).
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Mary Brooksbank
Submitted by Alison McCall on 28 September 2012 - 7:32am
Revised: 31 October 2012 - 2:05pm — admin
Other names:
Her maiden name was Soutar.
Dates:
15 Dec 1897-16 Mar 1978.
Mary Brooksbank was born in Aberdeen, one of five children of Alexander Soutar, dock labourer and union activist and Roseann Gillan, domestic servant, fish gutter and mill worker. The family moved to Dundee around 1907. She started work as a "half-timer" aged 11, working as a shifter in a jute mill. She joined the Communist Party in 1920 and led campaigns. She married Ernest Brooksbank in 1924. In 1931 a rally at which she was a speaker was charged by mounted policemen. She was arrested and charged with incitement to riot.
Jeanie Donnan
Submitted by Elsie.Miller on 27 September 2012 - 4:05pm
Revised: 23 October 2012 - 1:52pm — admin
Other names:
The Galloway Poetess
Dates:
19th November 1866 - 14th May 1942
Various books of poetry published. She wrote specifically of Galloway - nature, personages, life. She had the honour of the Societe of Philogie conferred on her - only the third lady to attain such without a University degree.
Made an Honorary member of Wigtown Burns' Club - the first woman to become a member.
Janet Hamilton
Submitted by Helen M Bushe on 18 June 2012 - 7:32pm
Revised: 18 June 2012 - 7:55pm — Helen M Bushe
Other names:
Janet Thomson
Dates:
d.o.b.12th October 1795 died 27th october 1873
Janet Hamilton was a poet and author who lived in what is now Coatbridge in the 19th century.
She was born Janet Thomson in Shotts in October 1795, in a house that was a remnant of an old farm steading, named Carshill.
Her father, James Thomson was a shoemaker and was a well read man with a keen interest in politics. Her mother’s name was Mary Brownlee.
Janet was fifth in descent from John Whitelaw, who was executed at the Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh, four years after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, in which he had taken an active role as a supporter of the Covenanting principles.
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Rachel Annand Taylor
Submitted by Alison McCall on 4 April 2012 - 1:00pm
Revised: 31 October 2012 - 1:24pm — admin
Other names:
Maiden name Annand.
Dates:
1876-1960
Rachel Annand was born in Aberdeen. Her father was a stone mason and an active trade unionist. She was one of the first women to study at Aberdeen University. Despite excelling academically, she did not complete her degree. She taught at the High School for Girls, in the building now occupied by Harlaw Academy. She married Alexander Cameron Taylor in 1901, but the marriage was not a happy one. She published four volumes of poetry between 1904 and 1923. She also published books on the Italian Renaissance and the poet Dunbar. She died in London in 1960.
Mary MacPherson
Submitted by KathKane on 27 March 2012 - 4:36pm
Revised: 8 October 2012 - 11:55pm — Alison McCall
Other names:
Mairi Mhor nan Oran
Dates:
1821-1898
Violet Jacob
Submitted by Scottish Senior... on 13 November 2011 - 9:12pm
Revised: 9 March 2012 - 2:17pm — admin
Other names:
Maiden name Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine
Dates:
Born 1 September 1863, died 9 September 1946
Born at the family home, the House of Dun, near Montrose, Violet was the eldest of three surviving daughters of Catherine Jones, and William Henry Kennedy-Erskine, 18th Laird of Dun.
