Robert Rendall

Robert Rendall (1898–1967)[1] was a Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist who spent most of his life in Kirkwall, Orkney.

Robert Rendall was born in Glasgow in 1898 but moved to Orkney with his Westray parents when young.

[2] He attended Kirkwall Grammar School until he was 13, but was largely self-educated, learning much from Arthur Mee's The Children's Encyclopædia.

[13] It has been said, "All his studies – whether scientific, archaeological, theological or literary – were rooted in Orkney, and a love of the islands drove the rigour which he applied to each of his chosen areas".

The work represents a cultured fusion of Orcadian vernacular, philosophical Christian content and refined form".