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John 'Jack' MacQueen (13 February 1929 - 15 September 2019) was a scholar and editor of Older Scots Literature. He was Masson Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Edinburgh (1963), and later Professor of Scottish Literature and Oral Tradition (1971). He was director of the School of Scottish Studies from 1969-1988 and edited Scottish Studies from 1969-1983.

Life
MacQueen was born in Springboig in 1929, and christened Jack. He was named after an uncle who had died in World War I, and was son to William Lochhead Mcqueen and Grace Palmer Galloway. MacQueen later altered the spelling of his family name. He was a pupil of Budhill Primary, Hutcheson's Grammar School and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated in 1950. He later graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with a BA (1952) and an MA (1954). During his time at Cambridge, he met and married Winifred Wallace McWalter, a classical scholar.

Career
During his time at Edinburgh, MacQueen supported the provision of MLitt and PhD degrees, and the Scottish Ethnology degree. His interests caused him to support the Scottish Tradition series of recordings and the publication Tocher.

MacQueen's scholarly outputs include St. Nynia (1961), including material translated by his wife Winifred, with a new edition in 2005. This collaboration is described by Ian Brown as 'crucial to our understanding of that [Latin-language] aspect of [Scottish] national literatures'.

He collaborated with Tom Scott on the 1966 Oxford Book of Scottish Verse, and in 1967 a monograph on Robert Henryson followed. MacQueen had a distinguished editing career, with such volumes as Ballatis of Luve (Edinburgh University Press, 1970), which contained excerpts from the Bannatyne manuscript; A Choice of Scottish Verse, 1470-1570 (Faber, 1972), and The Scotichronicon in Latin and English, both with Winifred.