John Lorne Campbell

Gaelic scholar and field recordist; Canna

Born
1 October 1906, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
25 April 1996, Fiesole, Italy

John Lorne Campbell was one of the foremost Gaelic scholars of his century and an early user of sound recording in the field. With his wife, Margaret Fay Shaw, he settled on Canna in 1938, and in 1981 he gave the island, his library and his sound archive to the National Trust for Scotland.

Further reading: Wikipedia · Tobar an Dualchais