David Hay Fleming


David Hay Fleming, LL.D. 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.

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