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Hector Macneill was born on October 22, 1746, in the villa of Rosebank, near Roslin.
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Hector Macneill was born on October 22, 1746, in the villa of Rosebank, near Roslin.
He was sent by his father, to the grammar-school at Stirling, then under Dr. David Doig, to whom in after-life the poet dedicated his popular composition "Scotland's Scaith, or the History of Will and Jean. "
His father's circumstances being such that he was unable to give his son a university education, he, at the age of fourteen, was withdrawn from his studies. He went to Bristol to a relative, a West Indian trader, who interested himself in him as his name-sake, and sent him as a prospective sailor in a vessel going to St. Christopher's. Disliking the sea, Macneill lived a year with his relative's son in St. Christopher's, and afterwards served three years with a merchant in Guadaloupe, later his employer dismissed him.
Macneill remained in the West Indies for nearly a quarter of a century, under circumstances less prosperous than those in which he began his career there. He appears to have filled various subordinate positions, and at one period to have been the manager of a sugar plantation in Jamaica, in which capacity he prepared a pamphlet in defence of the system of slavery in the West Indies. It was published in 1788, about which time Macneill returned to his native land in poor health and by no means prosperous circumstances. Taking up his residence at Stirling, he entered upon a literary career, by publishing in 1789 "The Harp, a Legendary Tale, " which met with but little success. During the succeeding ten years he divided his time between Jamaica and Scotland, at the expiration of which period he found a friend in the person of Mr. John Graham, a West India planter and former employer, who, at this death, left the poet an annuity of 100 per annum. It was on this gentleman's estate of Three-Mile River that Macneill wrote "The Pastoral, or Lyric Muse of Scotland. " He now took up his abode at Edinburgh, where he was admitted to the literary circles of that city, and numbered among his friends James Sibbald, and Mrs. Hamilton, authoress of "The Cottagers of Glenburnie. "
The poet being now in more easy circumstances, added to his income by systematic literary efforts. He wrote several novels, and for a time was the editor of the Scots Magazine. In 1801 he published an edition of his poems in two volumes, which was followed by a second in 1806, and a third in 1812. Although himself possessing "The vision and the faculty divine, " Macneill invariably warned all aspirants for poetic fame against embarking in the precarious pursuit of writing poetry as a means of support, or indeed of trusting to authorship of any kind.
Hector Macneill died on March 15, 1818, in his seventy-second year.
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