(John) Roland Bibby (1917–1997) was a Northumbrian-born scholar, poet, writer, historian, and antiquarian.
Biography
John Roland Bibby was born in South Terrace, Cottingwood Lane,
Morpeth,
Northumberland
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, in 1917. He spent the whole of his life in Northumberland except for a short period in
Glasgow
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, and another in
Gateshead
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, due to his work, and his war service in
Burma
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in the 1940s.
In 1946 he was in the forefront of the party of people who were instrumental in the formation of the Morpeth Antiquarian Society in 1946, of which he served as chairman for many years. He was one of the prime movers in the foundation of the Northumberland periodical "Northumbriana", helped found the Northumbrian Language Society,
wrote a booklet on the "compleat" history of the village of
Bothal, and wrote
dialect
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poetry.
In his role as historian, he also wrote innumerable articles for the ''
Morpeth Herald
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History
A broadsheet, esta ...
''.
From the 1950s, he lectured in History at
Blyth. In 1987, he was awarded an honorary M.A. by
Newcastle University
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.
John Roland Bibby died in his beloved
Northumberland
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in 1997.
See also
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Geordie dialect words
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References
External links
Wor Geordie Dialect, The Songwriters
1917 births
1997 deaths
English male songwriters
People from Morpeth, Northumberland
Writers from Northumberland
Geordie songwriters
20th-century English poets
20th-century English musicians
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