David Craig obituary

My father, David Craig, who has died aged 89, was a pioneering creative writing teacher, a poet and a prolific writer on landscape, literature and social history.

Born in Aberdeen, to Margaret (nee Simpson), a legal secretary, and John Craig, a children’s doctor, he went to Aberdeen grammar school and read English at Aberdeen University. Then he undertook a PhD at Cambridge, later published as Scottish Literature and the Scottish People, 1680-1830.