David Hay Fleming

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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

↑ http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usebooks/fleming-eastneuk/index.html

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource

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Name	Fleming, David Hay
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Date of birth	1849
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Date of death	1931
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