Lockhart Muirhead (1765–1829) was a Scottish librarian, museum-keeper and academic. He was Regius Professor of Zoology at

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, from 1807.University of Glasgow, Special Collections, ''Lockhart Muirhead''
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Life

Muirhead travelled in Europe shortly before the French Revolution, and subsequently wrote on both French and Italian topics. He contributed to the ''

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''. He was librarian of Glasgow University in the period 1795 to 1823. Muirhead became Keeper of the

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in Glasgow. William Hunter had intended his collection to go to Glasgow, when he died in 1783. It was Muirhead who in 1807 went to London to see to the move of the temporary display, to Glasgow University.

Family

Muirhead married Anne Campbell. The biographer

James Patrick Muirhead James Patrick Muirhead FRSE (26 July 1813 – 15 October 1898) was a Scottish advocate and author, best known as the biographer of James Watt. Life Born at The Grove, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he was son of Lockhart Muirhead; George Muirhead (lingu ...

was their son.

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1765 births 1829 deaths Scottish librarians Scottish naturalists Scottish curators Academics of the University of Glasgow Scottish non-fiction writers 19th-century Scottish people {{Scotland-writer-stub