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DAVID MACBETH MOIR (1798—1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID
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MACBETH
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MOIR (1798—1851)  , Scottish physician and writer, was
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born at
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Musselburgh on the 5th of
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January 1798 . He studied
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medicine at
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Edinburgh University, taking his degree in 1816 . Entering into
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partnership with a Musselburgh
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doctor he practised there until his
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death on the 6th of
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July 1851 . He was a contributor of both
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prose and
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verse to the magazines, and particularly, with the
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signature of "
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Delta," to
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Blackwood's . A collection of his
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poetry was edited in 1852 by
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Thomas
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Aird . Among his publications were the famous
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Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor (1828), which shows his gifts as a humorist, Outlines of the
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Ancient
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History of Medicine (1831), and
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Sketch of the Poetical Literature of the Past
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Half
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Century (1851) .

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I would like to find out where David Macbeth Moir lived in Musselburgh. Did he live in 33 eskside South/1 eskside east/eskside Cottage Musselburgh, as suggested in the recent "I Kent His Faither" exibition in Musselburgh Town Hall ?
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