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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 ...
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...
- The Herald Staff
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
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 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...
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 ...
