Author:Hector Macneill

Hector Macneill
(1746–1818)

Works

• "XXIV. An Account of the Caves of Cannara, Ambola, and Elephanta, in the East Indies", Archæologia, (London) VIII: 251-289, 1787. 
• On the Treatment of the Negroes in Jamaica (1788)

Songs

• "My Boy Tammy"
• "My Love's in Germany"
• "Mary of Castle-Cary"
• "I lo'e na a laddie but ane"
• "Come under my Plaidie"
• O tell me how for to woo
• The plaid amang the hether
• Jeanie's black e'e

Poetry

• To Mrs. Pleydell, with a Pot of Honey (1779)
• Scotland's Scaith, or the History of Will and Jean (1795)
• The Waes o' War, or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean (1796)
• The Harp, a Legendary Tale (1789)
• The links o' Forth; or, A parting peep at the Carse o' Stirling; a plaint (1796)
• The Poetical Works of Hector Macneill, Esq (1801), in 2 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Pastoral or Lyric Muse of Scotland (1809)
• Town Fashions, or Modern Manners delineated (1810, anon.)
• Bygane Times and Late-come Changes (1812, anon.)

Novels

• Memoirs of the life and travels of the late Charles Macpherson, esq. in Asia, Africa, and America (1800) (external scan)
• The Scottish Adventurers, or, The Way to Rise (1812) (external scan)

Works about Macneill

• "Macneill, Hector," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Macneill, Hector," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "MacNeill, Hector," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)