Henderson, Hamish
URI(s)
Fuller Name
- James Hamish Scott
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1919-11-11
Death Date
- 2002-03-08
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Edinburgh. School of Scottish Studies
Birth Place
- Blairgowrie (Scotland)
Associated Language
- Scots
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Folk songs--Collectors and collecting
Occupation
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Gramsci, A. Gramsci's prison letters, c1988:t.p. (Hamish Henderson) jkt. (Dr.; School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh Univ.)
- found: LC in RLIN, 9-23-88(hdg.: Henderson, Hamish)
- found: His Elegies for the dead in Cyrenaica, 1990:t.p. (Hamish Henderson) cover flap (b. 1919 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire)
- found: Notes, June 2003:p. 865 (Henderson, Hamish; b. 1919, d. Mar. 9, 2002; Scottish poet, songwriter, folklorist)
- found: BBC website, 27 November 2019:BBC Two: Writing Scotland: Scotland's writers (Hamish Henderson (1919-2002); James (Hamish) Scott Henderson was born on 11 November, 1919, in Blairgowrie to a single mother who introduced him to folksong and brought him up to speak Gaelic; educated at Blairgowrie High School and Dulwich College, London, and studied modern languages at Cambridge; served as an intelligence officer in Europe and North Africa during World War II; a lifelong socialist; became a collector of Scottish folk material and tradition; became a member of staff with the newly-founded School of Scottish Studies in the University of Edinburgh; died in Edinburgh on 8 March 2002)
LC Classification
- PR6015.E3819
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1988-09-26: new
- 2019-11-28: revised
Alternate Formats