J. MacDougall Hay

JOHN MacDOUGALL HAY was born in Argyll in 1880. After early employment as a schoolteacher, he joined the Church of Scotland as a minister. In 1914 his first novel Gillespie was published; it has since become recognised as a Scottish classic. His second novel Barnacles was published in 1916, and a volume of poetry, Their Dead Sons, in 1918. Ill for most of his life, Hay died of tuberculosis in 1919, at the age of 39. The poet George Campbell Hay was his son.