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

Biography

Fleming came from

St Andrews St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourt ...

, a university town in East

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross ...

and was educated at

Madras College Madras College, often referred to as Madras, is a Scottish comprehensive secondary school located in St Andrews, Fife. It educates over 1,400 pupils aged between 11 and 18 and was founded in 1833 by the Rev. Dr Andrew Bell. History Madras ...

secondary school. His family had a china and stoneware business, which he sold in 1883 to concentrate on his interests In his bequest, he left money to found the Hay Fleming Reference library. The collection was a bequest to the town of

, in 1932, of the library of Fleming, and consists of c13,000 volumes His grandson was the historian and economist David Fleming.The younger Fleming's niece discusses their family history, The Fleming Policy Centre
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Works

* ''Guidebook to St Andrews'' (1881) * ''Charters of

St. Andrews St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's four ...

'' (1883), * ''Guide to the

East Neuk The East Neuk () or East Neuk of Fife is an area of the coast of Fife, Scotland. "Neuk" is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the East Neuk is generally accepted to comprise the fishing villages of the most northerly part of the Firth of ...

'' (1886, 2 vol.s) * ''Martyrs and Confessors of St. Andrews'' (1887), * ''Scotland after the

Union of the Crowns The Union of the Crowns ( gd, Aonadh nan Crùintean; sco, Union o the Crouns) was the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of the Kingdom of England as James I and the practical unification of some functions (such as overseas dip ...

'' (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

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David Hay Fleming (1849-1931)

1849 births 1931 deaths 20th-century Scottish historians Writers from St Andrews People educated at Madras College 19th-century Scottish historians {{UK-historian-stub