Robert Morehead

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(9 March 1777 – 13 December 1842) was a Scottish clergyman and poet who served as Dean of Edinburgh from 1818 to 1832.

Life

Morehead was born on 9 March 1777 near

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in central

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, the son of Isabella Lockhart and

William Morehead William Morehead of Herbertshire FRSE (1737–1793) was an 18th-century Scottish landowner and forefather of the Morehead dynasty of prominent persons in Scotland and India. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life ...

(1737–1793). He studied divinity at

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, and was

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in 1802. He held incumbencies at the Qualified Chapel in

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, and in 1806 moved to the

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Chapel in

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In 1818 he became incumbent at the newly built St Paul's Chapel on York Place in the

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, serving alongside Rev Archibald Alison. He was also

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of the city. In 1832 he left Edinburgh to be rector of Easington in Yorkshire. In 1810 he lived at 1 Hill Street. In the 1830s he is listed as living at 26 Hill Street in the centre of

. The building was demolished to create a small car park. In 1817 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Archibald Alison and

Henry Mackenzie Henry Mackenzie FRSE (August 1745 – 14 January 1831, born and died in Edinburgh) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer sometimes seen as the Addison of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal ro ...

. He resigned from the Society in 1837. He died on 13 December 1842.'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries'

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(London, England), Thursday, December 22, 1842; Issue 22442

Family

He was married to Margaret Wilson. Their children included William Ambrose Morehead and Charles Morehead

(1807–1882) an authority on tropical diseases.

Publications

see Morehead was a frequent contributor to the

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. *''An Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste''

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1788 births 1842 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford 19th-century Scottish Episcopalian priests] Deans of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub