David Macbeth Moir

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David Macbeth Moir

David Macbeth Moir (born January 5, 1798 in Musselburgh , † July 6, 1851 in Scotland) was a Scottish doctor and writer.

Moir graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in medicine in 1816. Starting with a partnership with a doctor from Musselburgh, he worked there until his death. He was a contributor to prose and verse in magazines and partly with the signature Delta , in Blackwood's Magazine . His life was portrayed in the 1897 book The “Blackwood” Group by Sir George Douglas.

A collection of his poems was edited by Thomas Aird in 1852 . Among his publications were the famous Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor (1828), which highlighted his gifts as a humorist, Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine (1831), and Sketch of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half Century (1851).

He is one of the eligible writers of the Canadian Boat Song .

He is remembered with a memorial statue erected in Musselburgh in 1853. There are also some street names in the city that refer to it and the branch The David Macbeth Moir of the pub chain Weatherspoons, which was established in February 2012, has been named. Moir was a member of the Freemasons Association . His lodge , Canongate Kilwinning Lodge , is based in Kilwinning .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Linda Dowler: The authorship of the "Canadian Boat Song": a bibliographical note. (No longer available online.) In: Canadian Poetry, Volume 6. 1980, archived from the original on December 21, 2012 ; accessed on February 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uwo.ca
  2. ↑ David McBeth Moir statue. VisitorUK.com, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , revised and expanded new edition of the edition from 1932, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3

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SURNAME Moir, David Macbeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish physicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Musselburgh
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1851
Place of death Scotland