Moir,

Moir, DAVID MACBETH, a minor Scottish poet and humorist, was born at Musselburgh, January 5, 1798, and practised there as a physician till his death, July 6, 1851. He was much beloved by his friends for his amiability, and he earned a wide popularity, and made his pen-name of Delta (Δ) famous in Scotland at least by his verses contributed to Blackwood's Magazine. Of these a collection was made by Thomas Aird in 1852. Of more lasting merit is his genuinely humorous and still popular Autobiography of Mansie Wauch (1828). Other books of less value were Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine (1831) and Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century (1851).