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J S Clouston OBE , the son of physician Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according to his obituary in '' The Scotsman ''. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School , Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, ''The Lunatic at Large''. He was also a historian, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society , and a Fellow of the Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland . His '' The Spy In Black '' was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. He died at home at Smoogro House, Orphir, Orkney. Asked how to say his name, he told ''The Literary Digest '' it was ''cloos'-ton'', "with ''ou'' as in ''group''." (Charles Earle Funk, ''What's the Name, Please?'', Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) His fiction and nonfiction works include:
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