Papers of Edwin Morgan 1950-1974

Morgan, Edwin George, b 1920

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Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow on 27 April 1920, the only child of Stanley Lawrence Morgan and Margaret McKillop Arnott. He began his studies at the University of Glasgow in 1937 but he took leave of his studies to serve in the Royal Army and Medical Corps during the Second World War, returning to his studies in English Language and Literature in 1946. Thereafter, he began working in the University's English Department where he earned in 1975 an appointment to a Titular Chair. Alo...

Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010

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Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow in 1920 and brought up in Rutherglen on the outskirts of the city. An unhappy only child of conservative middle-class parents Morgan felt that he had no-one he could talk to about his artistic enthusiasms, although his father gave him a sense of Glasgow's industrial history. In 1937 Morgan began his studies at Glasgow university but the war intervened. At first he registered as a Conscientious Objector but then requested a posting to the Royal Army M...

Russell Peter b 1921

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Fletcher, Ian, 1920-1988

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Ian Fletcher was born in 1920 in a nursing home in Streatham, the only child of John Archibald Fletcher (1887?-1968), a farmer and retired army major, and Katherine Margaret Richardson (1888-1979), and grew up in Catford, South London. His family had strong Scottish antecedents and for a while as a young man he spelled his name Iain as a gesture to Scottish nationalism. Fletcher was educated at Dulwich College. At some point in his youth his parents separated and Fletche...