James Stout Angus (20 September 1830 – 26 December 1923) was a writer from Shetland, Scotland.
James had some tuition from Robert Laing, schoolmaster, land surveyor and teacher of navigation, and he assisted his schoolmaster uncle in Reawick for a time, but he subsequently bound himself as a housewright or joiner, then worked as a ship's carpenter, sailing emigrant and East Indian ships.
Angus began to publish poetry in the press in the 1870s, and is credited by Laurence Graham as having composed, in ‘Eels’ (1877), the "first truly original poem written in what we know as the Shetland dialect".
He lived to be 93, by which time his poetry had been collected in Echoes in Klingrahool, subsequently reprinted twice.
[dead link] Shetland Museum has a photo of the view of Catfirth from Klingrahool @: