Orkneymann.

1730 Baker's Chron. Kings of Eng. (new ed.) 531/2 The unseason'd Orkney Men immediately yielded themselves.

1775 S. Hearne Jrnl. 28 June (1934) 191 I have interfeared so far as to ask what Encouragement they Required, to which the Orkneymen seem'd to intermate that 12£ pr annom would enduce them to be actave & usefull.

1843 Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec 4 133 The animals frequenting this country [include]..the Common Hare of Canada, called Rabbits, by the Orkney men in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company.

1877 Harper's Mag. July 229/1 Overlooking the town, towering above all other buildings, is the old cathedral, the pride of Orkneymen.

1936 Beaver Dec. 4/1 In the year 1799 about five hundred and thirty persons were employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, at their fur trade posts in North America, of whom four hundred and sixteen..were Orkneymen.

1956 V. Fisher Pemmican 30 He had heard that..there were..a few red-faced Orkneymen, a few Moravian sisters and brothers.

1996 Daily Tel. 15 Apr. 21/5 In his early thirties, he went on to study at Newbattle Abbey under Edwin Muir, a fellow Orkneyman whom he much admired.