Hamish Henderson

b. 11 November 1919, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, d. 8 March 2002, Scotland. Noted Scottish poet, folklorist and ‘dad from the Scottish folk revival’. Henderson’s mom sang in Scots, French, and Gaelic, which laid the building blocks of his later on fascination with folk tracks. During his services in the Cleverness Corps in Globe Battle II, he arrived to connection with German and Italian troops, along with the Allies, and produced notes of several of the tracks and music that he noticed. Henderson’s Elegies For The Deceased In Cyrenaica, a assortment of poems were only available in Tunisia in 1943, and finished in Scotland in 1947, earned him the Somerset Maugham Honor in 1949, and he thought we would happen to be Italy using the reward money. Following the battle he was approached by Alan Lomax, whom he aided on the collecting tour of Scotland in 1951. Henderson obtained, for the after that newly formed College Of Scottish Research, the Scottish recordings created by Lomax, and ‘found out’ Jeannie Robertson in 1953. His ‘The Independence Come-All-Ye’ had become thought to be an unofficial Scottish anthem. In 1955, he became a representative of the institution Of Scottish Research, and continued to create appearances at celebrations. Henderson was a lifelong passionate socialist and refused an OBE within the 80s.