Wee Macgreegor

Initially, he was a cheeky young boy with an insatiable fondness for sweets, the son of respectable working class parents, Lizzie and John Robinson, who lived in Glasgow.

")The first short story about the Robinson family and their young son, "Wee Macgreegor", appeared in the Evening Times in 1901.

[2] The success of the first book led to a number of sequels: In 1911, Alfred Wareing, the founder of the Glasgow Repertory Theatre, rewrote some of the stories as a stage play.

It was produced by Harold Chapin and was performed at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, with a fourteen-year-old messenger boy in the lead role.

[4] In 1923, a silent film, The Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart, was directed by George Pearson and starred Betty Balfour.