Lorimer, William Laughton, 1885-1967 (Personal Name)

Bible. N.T. Scots. Lorimer. 1983. The New Testament in Scots, 1983: t.p. (William Laughton Lorimer, LL.D., F.B.A.) jkt. (b. 1885, d. 1967)

Wikipedia, August 26, 2020 (William Lorimer (scholar); William Laughton Lorimer (1885-1967) was a Scottish scholar; born at Strathmartine on the outskirts of Dundee, he was educated at the High School of Dundee, Fettes College, and Trinity College, Oxford; he is best known for the translation of the New Testament into Scots; Lorimer spent his professional life as a scholar of Ancient Greek at various universities, ending his career as Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews; however he also had a lifelong interest in the Scots language and besides the translation, was a longtime contributor to the Scottish National Dictionary; for the last ten years of his life he worked on translating the New Testament from the original Greek sources into Scots; although he did not finish the final revision of his translation, the work was completed by his son Robin and published posthumously on his behalf in 1983)