Significant Scots - David Macbeth Moir(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
MOIR, DAVID MACBETH.—This gentle, amiable, and talented poet and physician, whose worth secured for him the esteem which his genius awakened, and whose recent death is still felt and bewailed as a national bereavement, was born at Musselburgh, on the 5th of January, 1798.
Moir was thus so industrious in authorship, and deriving from it the reputation he so justly merited, he did not on that account suffer himself to be allured from the daily toils of his profession.
Moir, now at no more than the age of confirmed manhood, when health is strongest, and hope often at the brightest, bade fair, from his firm constitution and temperate habits, to be destined for a long life of usefulness, that to eyes of his friends loomed in bright perspective.
George Moir was professor of belles lettres in the University of Edinburgh, 1835-40; professor of Scots Law, 1864-65; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty, 1855-58; sheriff of Stirlingshire, 1858-68.
The intermarriages of the Moirs in the United States show that the result is a blending of the blood of many of the oldest families of the state, representing England, Scotland, Holland and France.
David, was the first of the family to come to the United States; he learned the trade of foundryman in Scotland, and prior to 1850 came to the United States and settled in Newark, New Jersey, where he established a foundry and after a prosperous business career died leaving a wife and children.
Stamped on the back cover are the initials of his wife: C.E.M. Written inside the front cover is the inscription: Jane Moir from her mother, July 1853.
MOIR CRAWFORD Wesll illustrated account of the shipwrecks of the Clyde Estuary and the surviving remains - wth notes for Divers and maps etc. 192pp.
MOIR, G. Illustrated with the Stamps Depicting That Aspect of History, Together with Maps and Photographs.
Moir (1798-1851) a Scottishphysician and prolific author contributing many articles for Blackwoods and the Scots Magazine and a number of successful novels.
He was a member of the Scottish Bar, and became Sheriff of Lanarkshire.
He became intimate with Delta Moir, James Hogg, John Wilson (Christopher North), and others of the brilliant staff of Blackwood's Magazine, to which he was drawn by his political sympathies.
In 1828 he became editor of the Edinburgh Literary Journal, which was eventually incorporated in the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.
The family name of Caddell, Calder and Cawdor in Scotland(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1130, according to the Gaelic Chronicles, "a battle was fought between the men of Scotland and the men of Moray; and in it four thousand men of Moray fell, including their King Angus (Earl of Moray), the great grandson of King Macbeth by Lulach's daughter." Their lands were thus forfeited to the Crown.
Macbeth (1039 - 1057), last of the Celtic Kings, usurped power in Scotland when he assassinated his cousin, King Duncan I. Macbeath, cut off the Thane of CALDER and others from their lands for not submitting to his tyranny.
The Feudal system was introduced into the Celtic kingdom of Scotland by David I on assuming his throne in 1124.
First found in Aberdeen where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Scotland to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Andrew, Jane, and James Moir settled in Maryland in 1774; Joseph and Robert Moir settled in Philadelphia in 1874.
Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25 published by Pickering & Chatto(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
DavidMacbethMoir, ‘Sonnet to Haydon’, ‘Sonnet to Wordsworth’ (VIII, February 1821)
DavidMacbethMoir, ‘Napoleon’, ‘Stanzas, On the Death of Napoleon’ (IX, July 1821)
DavidMacbethMoir, ‘Wonderful Passage in the Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor’ and ‘Still Farther Portions of the Autobiography of Mansie Wauch, Tailor’ (XVI, October 1824; XVIII, October 1825)
MODARRESSI - MURPHY(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Married to the writer Ann Tyler, he has written several novels, in Persian or in English.
Moir was apprenticed to a local surgeon at the age of thirteen, then studied at the University of Edinburgh where he received his surgeon's diploma in 1916.
He practiced medicine for years in his home town of Musselburgh, all the while contributing poetry and fiction to Blackwood's Magazine, as well as writing medical treatises.
The birds have ceased their songs, All save the flbird, that from yon tall ash, 'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat, In adoration of the setting sun, Chants forth his evening hymn.
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