CharlesT wrote:Is this Crimond, Jessie Seymour Irvine? Neither of which I have ever heard of.
Hurrah!
As a non religious person, I have always recognised Crimond as the name of the music that accompanies the words of the 23rd Psalm, The Lord is my Shepherd. I'm not sure when I first knew that, maybe I have been to too many funerals. I do confess, however, that until I was checking my facts about Crimond Church Clock, (a previous puzzle here from July 2021) I wasn't aware of the composer, a young organist whose father was the minister at Crimond Church. I thought my repeated use of the numbers 2 and 3 and reference to shepherding would be obvious, it being a very popular psalm attributed to King David and adapted into a hymn by James Montgomery. Maybe I should have used the Vicar of Dibley as a clue. NB David Grant who was originally credited with the composition assisted with the harmonisation and it wasn't until the 1940s that a letter from Jessie's sister came to light and she was finally attributed as the composer.
The other puzzle that mentions Crimond was also solved by you, Charles in January 2019, it being the airfield that Jim Clark began his racing career but you have clearly forgotten that you had heard of the place! For a small place it has a lot going on.
Over to you Charles.