James M. Mackinlay

James Murray Mackinlay was a Scottish antiquarian and folklorist based in Glasgow in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He studied the traditions attached to holy places in Scotland, publishing Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs in 1893, the first general account of well-worship in the country, and later Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-Names and a large study of ancient church dedications in Scotland.