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MACNEILL, HECTOR (1946-1818)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 266 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MACNEILL, See also:HECTOR (1946-1818) , Scottish poet, was See also:born near Roslin, Midlothian, on the 22nd of See also:October 1746, the son of an impoverished See also:army See also:captain. He went to See also:Bristol as a clerk at the See also:age of fourteen, and soon afterwards was despatched to the See also:West Indies. From 1780 to 1786 he acted as assistant secretary on See also:board the flagships of See also:Admiral Geary and See also:Sir See also:Richard Bickerton (1727-1792). Most of his later See also:life was spent in See also:Scotland, and it was in the See also:house of a friend at See also:Stirling that he wrote most of his songs and his Scotland's Shaith, or the See also:History of Will and See also:Jean (1795), a narrative poem intended to show the deteriorating influences of See also:whisky and pothouse politics. A sequel, The Waes of See also:War, appeared next See also:year. In 1800 he published The See also:Memoirs of See also:Charles See also:Macpherson, Esq., a novel under-stood to be a narrative of his own hardships and adventures. A See also:complete edition of the poems he wished to own appeared in 1812. His songs " See also:Mary of Castlecary," " Come under my plaidy," " My boy Tammy," " 0 tell me how for to woo," " I lo'ed ne'er a lassie but ane," " The See also:plaid amang the hether," and " Jeanie's See also:black e'e," are notable for their sweetness and simplicity. He died at See also:Edinburgh on the 15th of See also:March 1818.

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