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

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.

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"