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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.
Marjorie MacIntyre, campaigner: born Edinburgh 19 March 1909; member, Ross & Cromarty County Council, 1953-69; member, Scottish Arts Council 1957-63; Chairman, Orkney Heritage Society 1977-81 ...
May 4, 2012 · 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.
Jul 6, 1997 · Marjorie Linklater died last week aged 88, still a fervent Scottish nationalist but probably no longer banned from The Scotsman's letters pages. Magnus left the editorship of...
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...
Jun 16, 2020 · Kristin Linklater, a vocal coach renowned for helping actors free their inner voices, died on June 5 at her home in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. She was 84. Her son, the actor Hamish...
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 ...
Jul 3, 1997 · MARJORIE Linklater died on June 29 at her home in Kirkwall, Orkney, aged 88. She was president of the Orkney Heritage Society, and honorary vice-president of the St Magnus...
Marjorie Linklater 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.
Jun 8, 2020 · Born and raised in Scotland's Orkney Islands — her father, Eric Linklater, was a novelist; her mother, Marjorie Linklater, was a social activist — Linklater trained at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts.
