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 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]

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]

Selected works

  • An Anthology of Orkney Verse (1949)
  • The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland (1975)

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Fergusson (2006), pp. 91, 92
  2. ↑ Fergusson (2006), p. 94
  3. ↑ Murray & Murray (2004), p. 40
  4. ↑ Murray & Murray (2004), pp. 82, 99
  5. ↑ Ljosland, Ragnhild, "Ernest Marwick the folklorist" (PDF), University of the Highlands and Islands, archived (PDF) from the original on 4 May 2016, retrieved 3 May 2016
  6. ↑ Robertson (1991), p. xvi
  7. ↑ Fergusson (2006), p. 259
  8. ↑ "Programme 2015", Orkney International Science Festival, archived from the original on 4 March 2016

Bibliography

  • Fergusson, Maggie (2006), George Mackay Brown: The Life, John Murray, ISBN 978-0-7195-5659-3
  • Murray, Rowena; Murray, Brian (2004), Interrogation of Silence: The Writings of George Mackay Brown, John Murray, ISBN 978-0-7195-5929-7
  • Robertson, John D. M. (1991), "Introduction", An Orkney anthology: the selected works of Ernest Walker Marwick, Scottish Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-7073-0574-5


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