Organisation End Date 1967 Wikidata ID Q8014702 Contribution Most known for his Scots translation of the new testament from its original Greek which was finished posthumously by his son. He was very passionate about the scots language, studied scots vernacular speech and was actively trying to revitalize the declining Scots vernacular tongue. He also had various contribution to Latin and scots scholarship. Misc Attended military service during the first world war. He developed a fondness for Italy and was engaged in the protection of Italian prisoners of war after his stay there in 1904-5. Biographical Text Lorimer was the son of Reverend Robert Lorimer, a minister in the united free Church of Scotland and Isabella Lockhart Robertson. He married Marion Rose Gordon in 1915 and had one son, Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, with her. Lorimer attended Trinity college oxford. He was later a lecturer and professor at the University of St Andrews between 1910 and 1953. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Lorimer Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 259 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Description An account of the resource Greek and Latin scholar, created the first translation of the new testament from its original greek to scots. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1885 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource kn52 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014702