Davie, Alexander Ian McNaughton, 1924-2000 (schoolteacher, civil servant and poet)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1924 - 2000
Biography
Ian Davie (1924-2000) was a schoolteacher, civil servant and poet. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and at St John's College, Oxford, where Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin were his contemporaries. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1950. His publications in verse included Piers Prodigal (1961), Roman Pentecost (1970) and Angkor Apparent (1988), and in prose Jesus Purusha: a Vedanta-based doctrine of Jesus (1985).
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Fonds
Correspondence and related papers of Ian Davie, chiefly consisting of letters from Siegfried Sassoon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9862
Dates:
Mar. 1959-10 Mar. 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library