'The Kirkwall Bibliothek 1683-1891'

• Reference:GB 241 D1/157
• Dates of Creation:1923
• Name of Creator:
  Johnston, James Fowler Kellas (1846-1928), Bibliographer
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  Article written by J F Kellar Johnston, 'The Kirkwall Bibliotek 1683-1891', 1923; Letter and postcards from Rev J B Craven to J F Kellar Johnston relating to the article, 1923 (all photocopies).

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Craven, James Brown (Archdeacon). The son of a clergyman, James Craven was born in 1850 and ordained as Episcopal curate of St. Andrew’s, Aberdeen, in 1875. He quickly took on the parish of St.Olaf, Kirkwall, Orkney, where he served until 1914. He was appointed to be Archdeacon of Orkney in 1913. He wrote several works on historical or religious subjects, mostly to do with Orkney. He died in 1924.

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