15 March 1818(1818-03-15) (aged 71) Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation
Poet
Nationality
Scottish
Genre
Poetry
Hector Macneill (22 October 1746 – 15 March 1818) was a Scottish poet born near Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland. Macneill had been the son of a poor army captain and went to work as a clerk in 1760 at the age of fourteen. Soon, he was sent to the West Indies and served as assistant secretary from 1780 to 1786.
After he returned to Scotland, he wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, The Harp (1789), The Carse of Forth, and Scotland's Skaith,[1] the last against drunkenness, but is best known for his songs, such as My Love's in Germany (My Luve's in Germanie)[2]My Boy Tammy, I lo'ed ne'er a Laddie but ane, and Come under my Plaidie.
Hector Macneill died in Edinburgh in 1818.
^Macneill, Hector (1800). "Scotland's scaith, or, The history o' Will and Jean". A. Guthrie, Manners & Miller, and A. R. Constable. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
^"The Modern Scottish Minstrel". Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2007.
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