Fonds D27 - Papers of John Stewart (1903-1977), place name scholar, folklorist and antiquary

John Stewart was born at Brough in Whalsay on 18 July 1903. His parents were Magnus Stewart, a fisherman, and Janet Anderson, both of Whalsay. He was educated at the Brough School and later the Anderson Educational Institute in Lerwick. He studied at Aberdeen University and became a teacher in Aberdeen. Stewart was particularly interested in linguistics and history and was a keen archaeologist. He was a frequent contributor to the New Shetlander. His major study of the place-names of Shetland was posthumously published as Shetland Place-Names in 1987. His unpublished papers are in the Shetland Archives. He died in 1977.