John W.M. Bannerman

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John W.M. Bannerman


Born
in Balmaha, Stirlingshire, Scotland
August 13, 1932

Died
October 08, 2008

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John Walter MacDonald Bannerman was a Scottish historian, noted for his work on Gaelic Scotland.

He was born in Balmaha, Stirlingshire, the son of John MacDonald Bannerman, later Lord Bannerman of Kildonan, and his wife Ray Mundell. His family were native speakers of Scottish Gaelic, and Bannerman studied Celtic languages at the University of Glasgow and completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge where he was taught by Kathleen Hughes.

Although he considered teaching Gaelic in schools, Bannerman instead took up a post at the Celtic department of the University of Aberdeen before joining the history department at the University of Edinburgh in 1967. He took over the running of the family farm at Balmaha in 1968, shortly before his
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