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GAVIN GREIG

SCHOLART  AN  BONNIE  FECHTER  FIR BUCHAN'S  HEIRSKIP

​Gavin Greig is ain o the maist weel-kent scholarts, intellectuals an bonnie fechters fir the heirskip o Buchan.  He wis born it Newmachar on 10 Febrar 1856 an wint tae the Varsity o Aiberdeen an becam the Dominie it Fitehill Skweel it New Deer far he bed tae he deid on 31 Augist 1914.  

He scrievit a wikkly column "Ballad Corner" in the Buchan Observer far he scrievit aboot sang and music o the Nor-East.  His maist muckle mak oots wis the Greig Duncan Collection o fowksang fit he pit the gather we the Revd. J.B. Duncan (1848-1917)
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Syne, Gavin Greig was a makar, playwricht and scriever o ingine an mony o his pieces wis publisht in the 'Whistle Binkie' colleciton.  
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His wark Logie O' Buchan is nae scrievit in Doric bit it his a muckle suppie in't.  Click ablo tae tak a keek it't.
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