David Hay Fleming
David Hay Fleming, LL.D. was a Scottish historian and antiquary.
Biography
Fleming came from St Andrews, a university town in East Fife 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 interestsIn 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
His grandson was the historian and economist David Fleming.
Works
- Guidebook to St Andrews
- Charters of St. Andrews,
- Guide to the East Neuk of Fife
- Martyrs and Confessors of St. Andrews,
- Scotland after the Union of the Crowns,
- Mary Queen of Scots,
- Scottish History and Life,
- 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"