George Muirhead

For the Australian farmer George Muirhead, see Principality of Marlborough.

George Muirhead (1715–1773) was a Scottish linguist.

Life

Muirhead was born at Dunipace. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh (M.A. 1742), he was ordained as a Minister of the Kirk in 1746. He was professor of oriental languages at the University of Glasgow (1753-4), until his appointment as Chair of Humanity in 1754. Muirhead was elected Clerk of Senate in 1769.^[1]

Muirhead died on 31 August 1773. He was "an enthusiastic and accomplished classical scholar", and with James Moor, professor of Greek, superintended the noble edition of Homer in 4 vols., printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis of Glasgow (the Iliad in 1756, the Odyssey, with the Hymns and Fragments, in 1758). ^[2]

Legacy

The Muirhead Prizes are awarded in his memory.

References

↑ "Biography of George Muirhead". The University of Glasgow Story. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
↑ Sturt 1901.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Sturt, Beatrix Marion (1901). "Muirhead, George". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Muirhead and Boulton family tree

John Muirhead
(1685–1759)

Margaret Syme
(1685–1753)

John Muirhead
(1704–1755)

Janet Bogle
(1704–17??)

George Muirhead
(1715–1773)

Patrick Muirhead
(1718–1807)

Elizabeth Muirhead
(1728–1779)

James Campbell

Marion Muirhead
(1739–????)

Matthew Boulton
(1728–1809)

Anne Robinson
(1730–1783)

Lockhart Muirhead
(1765–1829)

Anna Campbell
(1769–1842)

Mary Anne Wilkinson
(1796–1829)

Matthew Robinson Boulton
(1770–1842)

William Ralph Cartwright
(1771–1847)

James Patrick Muirhead
(1813–1898)

Katharine Boulton
(1819–1890)

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton
(1820–1894)

Frances Eliza Cartwright
(1817–1864)

Herbert Hugh Muirhead
(1850–1904)

Notes:

Family tree of the Muirhead and Boulton families

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