The British Musical Biography

[E] M'Fadyen, John, musician and publisher
in Wilson Street, Glasgow, in succession to
Aird, in early part of the present century.
He died at Glasgow, March 8, 1837. Pub-
lished collections entitled. The Repository
of Scots and Irish Airs, Strathspeys, Reels,
etc., Glasgow, n.d.; Miscellaneous Collection
of the best English and Irish Songs, Glasgow,
n.d. ; Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and
Foreign Airs, adapted for the Fife, Violin, or
German Flute, 6 vols. Dedicated to the
Volunteers and defensive bands of Great
Britain and Ireland (c, 1800) ; Collection of
Highland Strathspey Reels. . . Glas., n.d., etc.
He kept a music circulating library in
Glasgow.

[+] His son, Joseph Taylor M'Fadyen (1807
— Dec. 25, 1856) was also a publisher in
Glasgow, and another son, James (c. 1805-
1850), a distinguished botanist, poet and
musician, was curator of the Botanical Gar-
dens, Kingston, Jamaica, and died there
during the cholera epidemic of 1850.

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