David Macbeth Moir [Delta]

(1798-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798-1851 NRA: Moir, David Macbeth (1798-1851), physician and author DNB: Moir, David Macbeth [pseud. Delta] (1798-1851), physician and writer LBT ID: DaMoir1851 VIAF ID: 17906594 LOC ID: nr94008550	B/BAP: 1798-01-05 DIED: 1851-07-06
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Scottish physician and popular lyric poet; he was the "Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine.
REFERENCES TO David Macbeth Moir [Delta]: Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 1: ¶ 143 Alaric Alexander Watts to Frances Hogson, [1826?] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 15 April 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 ¶ 5 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 4: Amusements Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 10: The R.S.L. Verse 2: p. 135a p. 135a Ch. 5: On Life Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. 17: Literary Characters Found 1: ¶ 26 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Chapter VIII. Found 3: ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ 24 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 11 Found 1: ¶ 28 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XIX. 1827-1830 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 11: 1817-24 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter 20: 1826-52 Found 1: ¶ n2