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Robert Rendall (1898–1967)〔Maggie Fergusson, ''George Mackay Brown: The Life'', John Murray, 2006, ISBN 0-7195-5659-7 p. 94, p. 200.〕 was a poet, and amateur naturalist who spent most of his life in Kirkwall, Orkney. ==Biography== Robert Rendall was born in Glasgow in 1898 but moved to Orkney with his Westray parents when young. When he was seven years old he was so ill that he was not expected to live for another year. He became a converted Christian about this time.〔Ron Ferguson, ''George Mackay Brown: The Wound and the Gift'', Saint Andrew Press, 2011, ISBN 978 0 7152 0935 6 p. 60〕 He attended Kirkwall Grammar School until he was 13, but was largely self-educated, learning much from Arthur Mee's ''The Children's Encyclopædia''.〔Maggie Fergusson, p. 94.〕 He worked in the family draper's business in Kirkwall.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Orkney Literary Figures )〕 He joined the Royal Navy in 1916 and served in Scapa Flow during World War I.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=St Magnus Cathedral )〕 Rendall, a man of many talents, known as a poet, and authority on shells, flowers, and marine life,〔 has been described as an "Orcadian Renaissance man.〔Ron Ferguson〕 He accidentally discovered the Broch of Gurness in 1929.〔Maggie Fergusson, p. 95.〕 In 1946 he semi-retired from business, and devoted his life to his scientific and cultural interests, and fishing. This was the year in which he published ''Country Sonnets'', which included many poems written in the Orkney dialect.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Literary Landscapes )〕 Rendall became a friend of the writer George Mackay Brown, whom he encouraged, and who had appreciated the quality of his best poetry,〔Maggie Fergusson p. 95, p. 125〕 having been introduced to him by Ernest Marwick〔Rowena Murray and Brian Murray, ''Interrogation of Silence'', John Murray, 2004, ISBN 0-7195-5929-4 p. 40〕 Brown was encouraged by Rendall's visits when he was confined to Eastbank Sanatorium.〔Ron Ferguson p76〕 In 1956 Rendall published ''Mollusca Orcadensia'', a paper which brings together from all available sources records of marine mollusca indigenous to Orkney,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biology )〕 which he had commenced in 1916.〔Literary Landscapes〕 He published ''Orkney Shore'', a work on the seashore life of Orkney, in 1960.〔 It has been said, "All his studies - whether scientific, archaeological, theological or literary - were rooted in Orkney, and a love of the islands drove the rigour which he applied to each of his chosen areas". Rendall was a small, dark, man, profoundly deaf, and a bachelor.〔Maggie Fergusson p. 94〕 He was a member of the Open Brethren.〔Ron Ferguson p. 59〕 Rendall died in 1967.〔Maggie Fergusson p. 199〕 A plaque bearing his name is in the presbytery of St Magnus Cathedral.〔 A biography, ''An Island Shore: the Life and Work of Robert Rendall'', by Neil Dickson was published in 1990,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Neil Dickson Collection )〕 while an essay on his work is included in George Mackay Brown's ''An Orkney Tapestry'' in 1969.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Rendall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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