MacNeill, Hector

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(1746-1818)

Poet, was in the West Indies 1780-86, and clerk on a flagship. He wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, The Harp (1789), The Carse of Forth, and Scotland's Skaith, the last against drunkenness, but is best known for his songs, such as My Boy Tammy, I lo'ed ne'er a Laddie but ane, and Come under my Plaidie.

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Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin