Summary
John MacDougall Hay (23 October 1880 – 10 December 1919)[1] was a Scottish novelist.
He was born and grew up in Tarbert, Argyll. He graduated in 1900 with an M.A. from the University of Glasgow. He was initially a school teacher in Stornaway, but then became a Church of Scotland minister. He was the father of Sheena Campbell Hay (1911–1987) and George Campbell Hay, the Scottish Gaelic poet.[1]
He is mainly known for his novel Gillespie (1914),[2][3] set in a fictionalised version of his home town of Tarbert. It received favourable reviews[4] when it was published in 1914, but was largely forgotten until it was re-discovered in the late 20th century.[5] He also wrote a second novel Barnacles (1916),[6][7] and a collection of poems Their Dead Sons (1918).[8] In the year of his death, he was planning a third novel set in the Church of Scotland and to be entitled The Martyr.[3]
In poor health for much of his adult life, he died of tuberculosis at the age of only 39.
References edit
- ^ a b Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Oliver and Boyd. 1920. p. 138.
- ^ Hay, J. MacDougall (1979). Gillespie. Canongate. ISBN 9780903937795; 1979 reprint of 1914 original.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) MacDougall Hay, J. (1993). 2001 pbk edition. Canongate. ISBN 086241427X. - ^ a b Murray, Isobel; Tait, Bob. "Gillespie – J. McDougall Hay". canongate.co.uk. (brief biography)
- ^ "Review of Gillespie by J. MacDougall Hay". The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art. 86: 270. 28 February 1914.
- ^ Morton, Brian (26 May 2014). "Cannon Fodder (review of Gillespie)". Scottish Review of Books.
- ^ Hay, J. MacDougall (1916). Barnacles.
- ^ "Review of Barnacles by J. MacDougall Hay". The Review of Reviews. 53 (318). Horace Marshall & Son: 593. June 1916.
- ^ Royle, Trevor (27 January 2012). "John MacDougall Hay". In Flanders Fields: Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War. Random House. ISBN 9781780574325.