Alastair Dunnett

Alastair Dunnett

Infobox Person
name = Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett


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birth_date = birth date|1908|12|26
birth_place = Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland
death_date = death date and age|1998|9|2|1908|12|26
death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
nationality = Scottish
known_for = Journalist and Newspaper editor
education = Hillhead High School to age 15
spouse = Dorothy Dunnett
children = Ninian Dunnett
Mungo Dunnett
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Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett (26 December 1908 – 2 September 1998) was a Scottish journalist and newspaper editor. He edited "The Daily Record" newspaper for nine years and "The Scotsman" newspaper from 1956 to 1972. In 1975 he became chairman of Thomson Scottish Petroleum and was much involved in the establishment of the oil terminal at Flotta in Orkney. From the 1950s to the 1980s he was involved in many Scottish cultural activities including being governor of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre (1958–1984). He was awarded an honorary degree of LLD by the University of Strathclyde in 1978 [cite book | title=University of Strathclyde Calendar 2006-07 | page=287 | url=http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/Secretariat/Publications/general/publications/Part1.pdf | accessdate=2008-03-13] and was knighted on 4 July 1995. [cite news|work=London Gazette | date=1996-01-12 | title= Honours and awards: Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood|url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=54287&geotype=London&gpn=571&type=ArchivedIssuePage&all=alastair%20dunnett&exact=&atleast=&similar= | accessdate=2008-03-13]

He published a book of short stories ("Heard tell", 1947), a description of a kayaking voyage round the coast of Scotland ("Quest by canoe", 1950, republished in 1969 as "It's too late in the year" and in 1996 as "The canoe boys"), several books on Scottish topics and an autobiography ("Among friends", 1984).

Dunnett married Dorothy Halliday on 17 September 1946; as Dorothy Dunnett she was a celebrated artist and historical novelist, author of the "Lymond Chronicles" and "The House of Niccolo". They had two sons, Ninian and Mungo.

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*cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | title=Alastair Dunnett | last=Linklater | first=Magnus | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70893 | date=May 2005 | accessdate=2008-03-12

Bibliography

*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=Heard Tell | publisher= Albyn Press | location=Edinburgh| date=1947
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=Quest by canoe: Glasgow to Skye | publisher= G. Bell| location = London| date=1950
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title= Land of Scotch being an account of the topography and history of Scotland with some mention of the products of that country | publisher= A. Brown & sons for the Scotch Whisky Association| location = Edinburgh| date=1953
** Republished as: cite book | last = Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=It's too late in the year, etc | publisher = Cedric Chivers | location = Bath | series = Portway reprints | date=1969
** Republished as: cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=The Canoe Boys: from the Clyde past the Cuillins | publisher= Neil Wilson | location=Glasgow | date=1995 | isbn= 1897784422
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=The Donaldson Line: a century of shipping, 1854-1954 | publisher= Jackson | location=Glasgow | date=1960
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair (editor) | title=Alistair MacLean introduces Scotland | publisher=Deutsch | location=London | date=1972 | isbn=0233963499
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=No thanks to the Duke | publisher= Cape | location=London | date=1978 | isbn=022401630X
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Alastair | title=Among friends: an autobiography | publisher= Century books |location=London | date=1984 | isbn=0712609326
*cite book | last=Dunnett | first=Dorothy|authorlink=Dorothy Dunnett| coauthors=Alastair Dunnett| title=The Scottish Highlands | publisher= Mainstream |location=Edinburgh | date=1988 | isbn=1851581499


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