R. A. Scott (Robert Andrew Scott) Macfie

Born in 1868, he came from the Macfie sugar-refining family of Liverpool and was educated at Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Göttingen. Although business was part of his background, he is chiefly remembered as a Romany scholar who devoted much of his energy to studying Romani communities, language, and folklore.

He wrote as R. A. Scott Macfie and sometimes used the Romani pseudonym Andreas Mui Shuko. His work is closely tied to the Gypsy Lore Society, which he helped sustain and revive in the early 20th century, and his book Gypsy Lore remains one of the titles associated with his name.

Macfie died in 1935. His importance lasts on not only through his own writing, but also through the collections of books, papers, and related material preserved in Liverpool, which show how seriously he pursued his research interests.