Pender, Iain McAllister Moffatt-, 1896-1961 (Scottish writer and Gaelic revivalist)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1896 - 1961

Biography

Iain (sometimes spelt Ian) McAllister Moffatt-Pender studied Celtic Language and Literature under Professor W. J. Watson at Edinburgh University, before his studies were interrupted by the First World War, during which he fought in the Seaforth Highlanders. Before the War he also represented Scotland as a Rugby Union international. In 1932, he emigrated to Australia with his wife and made a fortune as a sheep farmer. He returned to Scotland after the Second World War and completed his degree in 1951. He wrote plays in Gaelic on Jacobite themes.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Scrapbooks of Iain Moffatt-Pender

Collection — Box CLX-A-1140

Identifier: Coll-1896

Scope and Contents Two personal scrapbooks of writer and Gaelic revivalist Iain Moffatt-Pender, comprising mostly clippings, photographs, and correspondence which together throw an interesting light on the social milieu of Scottish Gaelic revivalism in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, including links with Irish artists and academics.The first album contains several black-and-white family photographs dating from the beginning and middle of the 20th century, a letter from John Macmillan...

Dates: 1950s-1960s

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Typescript of Iain Moffatt-Pender's own corrected draft of his English translation of Kenneth Macleod's essay "Duatharachd na mara"

Item

Identifier: Coll-2940

Scope and Contents

This is a typescript of Iain Moffatt-Pender's own corrected draft of his English translation of Kenneth Macleod's essay "Duatharachd na mara". The title page reads: ""Duatharachd na mara." (The Romance -- or the Mystery of the Sea) / by Kenneth Macleod "The Minister of the Songs" translated by Iain Macalastair Moffatt-Pender." [In red ink above title: NOT FOR PUBLICATION). No date, but 1927 or earlier.

Dates: [1927 or earlier]