Dr George Muirhead

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LLD (1845-1928) was a 20th-century Scottish naturalist and artist.

Life

He was born in Saltoun in

East Lothian East Lothian (; ; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a Counties of Scotland, historic county, registration county and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In ...

in 1845, the son of a farmer. From around 1865 he was a Factor on a

Berwickshire Berwickshire (; ) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in south-eastern Scotland, on the English border. The county takes its name from Berwick-upon-Tweed, its original county town, which was part of Scotland at the ...

estate, overseeing managerial issues. He moved to be Factor of Haddo House around 1880, working under the Marquess of Aberdeen. From 1897 to 1923 he was Commissioner to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon at Fochabers. He died at Fochabers in 1928.

Academic honours

In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were David Milne Home, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, J. A. Harvey Brown, and Alexander Buchan. Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1925.

Publications

''Birds of Berwickshire'' vol.1
(1889)
''Birds of Berwickshire'' vol.2
(1895)

Family

He married twice: firstly to Agnes Grieve Clay of Kerchesters, a gifted artist of birds. They had three sons. Secondly, in 1907, he married the Hon Katherine Forbes-Sempill, daughter of William Forbes-Sempill, 17th Lord Sempill.

References

1845 births 1928 deaths People from East Lothian Scottish naturalists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People from Fochabers {{Scotland-scientist-stub