John Firth (folklorist)

John Firth (1838–1922) was a Scottish folklorist. He was born in Redland on Mainland, Orkney. He worked as a joiner and wheelwright and had a workshop in the village of Finstown, in the parish of Firth.John Shearer, William Groundwater, John D. Mackay. The New Orkney Book. Nelson, 1966. p. 157. He wrote Reminiscences of an Orkney Parish.

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