About the Author

HAVING FALLEN IN love with this island at the end of the nineteenth century, Ian Stoughton Holbourn bought Foula and the title Laird of Foula after three years' negotiation. He came to regard it as home, despite a peripatetic life as a university lecturer that took him as far afield as Minnesota, where he was a part-time Professor of Art and Archaeology. He died in 1935.