David Hay Fleming

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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.

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[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Quotes

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

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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