John Morrison Caie CB FRSE (1878[1] - 22 December 1949) was a Scottish civil servant and poet.
Caie was born and raised in Fochabers. He was the son of the Rev W.S. Caie, minister of Enzie parish church, in Banffshire. He was educated at Milne's Institute in Fochabers, and graduated from the University of Aberdeen (MA, BL, BSc). A lawyer and agronomist, he became a senior civil servant at the Board of Agriculture for Scotland and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[1] However he also wrote poetry on subjects drawn from the rural culture of Northeast Scotland such as his 1939 collection, Hills and Sea. He is best known nowadays for his humorous poem, The Puddock, one of several that he wrote in his native Doric dialect. The poem has become a favourite piece to teach to children in Scottish Primary schools.