HECTOR MACNEILL BIOGRAPHY
HECTOR MACNEILL BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
MACNEILL, HECTOR (1746-1818). —Poet, was in the West Indies 1780-86, and clerk on a flagship. He wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, The Harp (1789), The Carse of Forth , and Scotland's Skaith , the last against drunkenness, but is best known for his songs, such as My Boy Tammy , I lo'ed ne'er a Laddie but ane , and Come under my Plaidie .