john Morrison caie |
John Morrison Caie was born it Banchory Devenick on 20 Aagist 1878 but wis and vrocht up in the parish o Enzie in Banffshire far his fadder, Revd William Caie wis menister o the kirk. As a bairn he went tae Milne's Institute in Fochabers, Moray far he wis a contemporary of Willie Baxter (o soup fame) an Davy Reid fae Port Gordon. Richt throuw his life he hid an affa affection for the Enzie and he scrieved aboot it mony times.
Efter Milne's he went tae the Aiberdeen Varsity far he wis learnt law and agronomy; he graduatet we MA, BL an BSc. He becam a civil servant and jynt the Buird o Agriculture o Scotland in 1912. He endet up as Depute Secretar tae the Buird throughoot the Second Worl Waar far he oversaa the production of mait. He wis honoured we Companion of the Bath (CB) be King George VI. |
Richt throuw his career as a civil servant, Caie wis affa weel-kent for his poems, maistly aboot rural life in the North-East, draain on his memories fae fan he wis a bairnie in Banffshire. He wis prood tae scrieve in his ain Doric tung. The Puddock is ain of his maist weel-kent and weel-loved poems. In 1940, he wis electit as a Fellow o the Royal Society o Edinburgh and awardet an Honorary Doctorate (LLD) be Aiberdeen Varsity in 1945. He deid affa sudden in Aiberdeen on 22 December 1949. |
A croon, a harp, a bonnie sang,
Wi’ naething tae dee but tak’ wir ease,
An’ still-an’-on we’re loath tae gyang –
Dod, but fowk’s gey ill tae please.
THE ENZIE |