Not in Reilly.

Studies at Aberdeen University interrupted by service with the Gordon Highlanders 1941-45. Awarded the MC. "Coronach," elegy for the dead of his battalion probably his finest poem.


Alexander Scott (1920-89) was. In his day, he was one of the most prominent of Scotland's poets, renowned for witty, passionate, vigorous poems in both Scots and English - poems embodying his high ideals of poetic craftsmanship and carrying forward MacDiarmid's literary Renaissance into the Sixties. They were also among the most entertaining of their time......Scott took a lead in developing Scottish Literature as a modern subject, laying the foundations for its present prominence in the Scottish academic scene. In 1971, he became the first head of the world's only university department in the subject. In addition, he was a dramatist, actor, anthologist, scholar, critic, editor, broadcaster, columnist and controversialist.