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

Biography

Fleming came from

St Andrews St Andrews (; ; , pronounced ʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ 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 fourth-largest settleme ...

, a university town in East

Fife Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the s ...

and was educated at Madras College 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'' (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 language, Scots word for nook or corner, and the East Neuk is generally accepted to comprise the fishing villages of the most northerly part o ...

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

Union of the Crowns The Union of the Crowns (; ) 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 diplomacy) of the two separate realms under a single ...

'' (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