George Eyre-Todd

Born in Glasgow in 1862, George Eyre-Todd was a Scottish writer, editor, and literary popularizer whose work focused strongly on Scotland’s culture and past. Reliable sources connected with his published work describe him as an editor of several volumes of Scottish poetry, and contemporary accounts remember him as a well-known Scottish author and historian.

He is especially associated with collecting, editing, and introducing earlier Scottish literature for general readers. Among the works linked to him are volumes on medieval and eighteenth-century Scottish poetry, as well as books such as The Glasgow Poets, History of Glasgow, and The Highland Clans of Scotland. Sources also describe him as a lecturer on English literature and Scottish history at the Glasgow Athenaeum and as an editor of The Scottish Field.

Eyre-Todd died in July 1937. His reputation rests on the way he made Scottish literary history feel accessible and readable, opening older poems, traditions, and places to new audiences rather than keeping them only for specialists.