А. В. Б. Норман
Alexander Vesey Bethune Norman, B.A. (10 February 1930, Delhi — 20 July 1998, Edinburgh).
`Nick’ Norman was born on 10 February 1930 in Delhi, where his father was serving with the Gordon Highlanders, and was brought up in Aberdeenshire at the New Castle of Kildrummy (actually a late nineteenth-century house) on Donside. His landowning family was ardently Scottish and Norman was educated at Glenalmond before going up to Peterhouse to read agriculture, with a view to spending his life on the land. Finding the theoretical course unsatisfactory, Norman ...