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Marjorie Linklater (née MacIntyre; 19 March 1909 – 29 June 1997) was a Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment on the island of Orkney. She gave up acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to get involved in conservation, education, and health matters as a county councillor for Ross and Cromarty County Council.
I have been cataloguing the personal papers of an incredible woman who was devoted to life on Orkney: Marjorie Linklater (1909-1997). Born in Edinburgh in 1909, she met Eric Linklater (1899-1974), the well known Scottish novelist in 1932, marrying him the following year, after which they lived at Merkister in the parish of Harray.
- Sharon Messenger
Born in 1909, the youngest daughter of Ian MacIntyre, a flamboyant former rugby international and MP who became an Edinburgh solicitor, she was sparsely educated at St...
Jul 11, 1997 · Edinburgh-born, she was a strikingly beautiful actress when she met the Orcadian writer Eric Linklater - already established as one of Scotland's leading novelists - and married him in 1933....
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Jun 16, 2020 · Born in Edinburgh to the Scots writer Eric Linklater and Marjorie Linklater, a social activist, Kristin grew up on Orkney with her sister and two brothers.
Aug 31, 2024 · Marjorie Linklater (née MacIntyre; 19 March 1909 – 29 June 1997) was a Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment on the island of Orkney.
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Jul 7, 2020 · When Kristin decided to retire from Columbia University in 2013, she had been in the United States for exactly 50 years and had already purchased a home on the remote and starkly beautiful Orkney Islands in Scotland, her childhood home, where she was raised by her mother, Marjorie Linklater, and her father, well-known author Eric Linklater..
