Maurice Lindsay CBE (21 July 1918 – 30 April 2009[1]) was a Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet.
After serving in World War II, with the 7th Cameronians,[2] he became a radio broadcaster, also editing the 1946 anthology Modern Scottish Poetry, and writing music criticism.
In 1962, Scottish composer Thea Musgrave set five of his children's poems in Scots to music for voice and piano, in a song cycle called A Suite o Bairnsangs.
He wrote a number of other books, including one on Robert Burns and a seminal biography of the composer Francis George Scott and mid-twentieth century Scottish classical music, entitled Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance (1980).
Dr Lindsay was director of the Scottish Civic Trust, president of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 1989 to 1993, and was honorary secretary-general of Europa Nostra.