John M. Caie
John Morrison Caie LLD (20 August 1878 – 22 December 1949) was a Scottish civil servant and poet. His poetry centres upon rural life in north-east Scotland.
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John M. Caie
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- 1878 · Moray.
- Died
- 1949
- Occupation
- poet
- Education
- University of Aberdeen
- Honours
- Companion of the Order of the Bath · Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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John Morrison Caie LLD (20 August 1878 – 22 December 1949) was a Scottish civil servant and poet. His poetry centres upon rural life in north-east Scotland.
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Caie was born in Banchory and raised in Fochabers, Moray. He was the son of the Rev William S. Caie, minister of Enzie parish church, in Banffshire, and Helen Smith Scott. He was educated at Milne's Institute in Fochabers and graduated from the University of Aberdeen (MA, BL, BSc). A lawyer and agronomist, Caie became a civil servant at the Board of Agriculture for Scotland in 1912. He rose to the level of Deputy Secretary from 1939 to 1945 (during the critical period of World War II). In 1940, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with James Couper Brash among his proposers. He was a noted poet, writing on subjects drawn from the rural culture of northeast Scotland. He is best known nowadays for his humorous poem, The Puddock, one of many that he wrote in his native Doric dialect. The poem remains a favourite piece for teaching in Scottish primary schools. In 1945, Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD). He died in Aberdeen on 22 December 1949.
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He married Mary Macleod in 1908.
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1878
John M. Caie born at Moray.
1949
John M. Caie died.
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• The Kindly North: verse in Scots and English (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1934) • Twixt Hills and Sea: verse in Scots and English (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1939)
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- 1.Waterston, Charles D. Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. I. July 2006. 978-0-902198-84-5.
- 2.John M. Caie, 1878–1949. Scottish Poetry Library.
- 3.C D Waterston. Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. 090219884X.
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- The Kindly North: verse in Scots and English (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1934)
- Twixt Hills and Sea: verse in Scots and English (Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1939)
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Caie is recorded as having received Companion of the Order of the Bath and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The identifiers under which John M. Caie may be traced in institutional catalogues.
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