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Fleming, David Hay

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This article is about the Scottish historian David Hay Fleming. For the English environmental writer see David Fleming, and for the Scottish politician and judge, please see David Pinkerton Fleming.

David Hay Fleming, LL.D. (1849-1931) was a Scottish historian and antiquary.

Biography

Fleming came from St Andrews, a university town in East Fife. His family had a china and stoneware business, which he sold in 1883 to concentrate on his interests [1]

In his bequest, he left money to found the Hay Fleming Reference library. The collection was a bequest to the town of St Andrews, in 1932, of the library of Fleming, and consists of c13,000 volumes

Works

Guidebook to St Andrews (1881)
Charters of St. Andrews (1883),
Guide to the East Neuk of Fife (1886, 2 vol.s)
Martyrs and Confessors of St. Andrews (1887),
Scotland after the Union of the Crowns (1890),
Mary Queen of Scots (1897),
Scottish History and Life (3 sections, 1902),
Story of the Scottish Covenants
The Discipline of the Reformation
Critical Reviews
Knox in the Hands of the Philistines

Quotes

"Thus it is that history is falsified and good men slandered"

References

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

External links

This biographical information was gathered from the David_Hay_Fleming page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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