Author:David Macbeth Moir

David Macbeth Moir
(1798–1851)

David Macbeth Moir

Works

• The Bombardment of Algiers, and other Poems (1816, anon.)
• The Legend of Genevieve, with other Tales and Poems (1824)
• The Autobiography of Mansie Wauch (1828)
  • The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith, various chapbooks containing extracts from the 'Autobiography'
• Outlines of the ancient history of Medicine; being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians (1831)
• Practical Observations on Malignant Cholera (1832)
• Proofs of the Contagion of Malignant Cholera (1832)
• Domestic Verses (1843)
• Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the past half century, in six lectures (1851)
• The Roman Antiquities of Inveresk (1860)

Poetry

• "The Household Spaniel" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)
• "A Dream of Youth" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)
• "Gildeluec ha Guilladun" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)

Works about Moir

• "Moir, David Macbeth," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.
• "Moir, David Macbeth," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Moir, David Macbeth," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Moir, David Macbeth," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)