Douglas Young, poet and essayist, was a ‘colourful and memorable figure’ of the Scottish Renaissance. He studied at St Andrews and Oxford, taught at Aberdeen University, became a leading member of the young Scottish National Party, and was imprisoned for refusing conscription in 1942 (where he completed Auntran Blads, his first book of poems). He was a master of translation into Scots, and had an international reputation as a scholar of Greek, teaching classics in North America from the 1960s until his death.