David Herd

David Herd

(1732-1810) Scottish anthologist, son of a farmer in Kincardineshire, was clerk to an accountant in Edinburgh, and devoted his leisure to collecting old Scottish poems and songs, which he first puborn in 1769 as Ancient Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. Other and enlarged editions appeared in 1776 and 1791. Sir W. Scott made use of his manuscript collections in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

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