David Doig

David Doig FRSE LLD (1719–1800) was a Scottish educator, philologist and writer known for historical and philosophical works.

Having finished the classical and philosophical course and proceeded B.A., he began the study of divinity, but scruples regarding the Westminster Confession of Faith prevented him from entering the ministry of the Church of Scotland.

The University of Glasgow conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D., and on the same day he received from St. Andrews his diploma as M.A.

A mural tablet, with an inscription in commemoration of his virtues and learning, was raised by his friend John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.

The town of Stirling also erected a marble monument to his memory, with a Latin epitaph written by himself.

Doig's first known appearance in print was some twenty pages of annotation on the Gaberlunzie-man, in an edition of that and another old Scottish poem, Christ's Kirk on the Green, published in 1782 by his friend and neighbour John Callander of Craigforth.

The first of the letters, from 1775, had been sent to Kames, who was passing the Christmas vacation a few miles from Stirling, and who invited Doig to dinner next day.