Administrative History | Article reprinted from the Proceedings of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, Vol. XIV, Session 1936-1937 (pages 31 to 37) The Orkney Antiquarian Society was founded in 1922 by Dr. Hugh Marwick, Archdeacon James Brown Craven, Joseph Storer Clouston and John Mooney, and continued in existence for 17 years. Its focus of interest was the history and archaeology of Orkney, in Scotland, in the United Kingdom. During its lifetime, the Society published 15 volumes of Proceedings, the last being in 1939. |