David Hay Fleming

'''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 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<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guide to the East Neuk of Fife by D Hay Fleming on Undiscovered Scotland: Main Page|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usebooks/fleming-eastneuk/index.html|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk}}</ref>

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

His grandson was the historian and economist David Fleming.<ref>[https://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/picture-hunt/ The younger Fleming's niece discusses their family history, The Fleming Policy Centre]</ref>

==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== {{Reflist}} * {{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}

==External links== * {{Gutenberg author | id=25045| name=David Hay Fleming}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=David Hay Fleming}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070808144208/http://specialcollections.st-and.ac.uk/mssdhf.htm David Hay Fleming (1849-1931) ] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208104143/http://www.naphtali.com/hayflm1.htm E-text ''The Discipline of the Reformation''] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070404043818/http://fpcr.org/blue_banner_articles/Calvin_Bowls.htm#T12 David Hay Fleming] {{Authority control}}

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