John Robertson Allan - Journalist
He was born in Udny, Aberdeenshire, and was educated at the University of Aberdeen. His autobiographical story of the farming communities of the north-east of Scotland, Farmer's Boy (1935), is a classic study of childhood and is richly evocative of a bygone age. Allan worked as a journalist in Glasgow but returned later to his native Aberdeenshire to farm at Methlick. Most of his published work has been devoted to agricultural subjects but his North-east Lowlands of Scotland (1952) is a loving, though utterly unsentimental, account of the topography and history of the land of his birth.
Works: A New Song to the Land (1931);
Farmer's Boy (1935);
Down on the Farm (1937);
Scotland (1938);
Summer in Scotland (1938);
England Without End (1940);
North East Lowlands of Scotland (1952);
The Seasons Return (1955);
Crombies of Grandholm and Cothal (1960).
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