David Rorie
David Rorie, DSO, MDCM, DPH (1867 – 18 Februar 1946) wis a doctor, folklorist an poet that scrievit in Scots. As a poet he is kenspeckle for his weel-kent sang, 'The Lum Hat wantin' the Croon'.
Rorie wis educate at Aberdeen an Edinburgh, whaur he got his MD in 1908.[1].He wis a weel-kent authority on public health in Scotland an furthset mony airticles in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, British Medical Journal, and the Edinburgh Medical Journal, whaur he wis ane o the heid editors.
He gaithert an furthset quairs o Scottish folklore, the feck o it trokit wi folk-medicine an the freits o minin folk. Ane o his quairs, Folklore of the Mining Folk of Fife wis furthset bi the Folklore Society in 1912. Rorie wis for mony yeirs a doctor in Bowhill, naur Cardenden in Fife.[2]
Dr Rorie sert in the RAMC in the 1914-18 War, attainit the rank o colonel, an wis gien the DSO an Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.[3]
Furthset warks[eedit | eedit soorce]
Folklore of the Mining Folk of Fife (1912) Folkore Society
The Auld Doctor, and Other Poems and Songs in Scots (1920) Constable. 61 pp.
A Medico's Luck in the War (1929) Milne and Hutchison, Aberdeen. 264 pp.
The Lum Hat Wantin' the Croon, and Other Poems (1935) Moray Press. 128 pp.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ David, Rorie (1908). "Scottish folk medicine" (in Inglis). Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ↑ "personalities". www.bowhillpeoplesburnsclub.co.uk. Retrieved 23 Mairch 2022.
- ↑ L. F. Newman, 'David Rorie, MD, CM, DPH' in Folklore Vol. 57, Issue 2, 1946 p. 96