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Up for sale a RARE! "Regius Professor" Lockhart Muirhead Hand Written Letter Dated 1821.
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Lockhart Muirhead (1765
– 1829) was a Scottish librarian, museum-keeper and academic. He was Regius Professor
of Natural History at Glasgow University, in Europe shortly before the French Revolution, and subsequently wrote on both French and
Italian topics. He contributed to the Monthly Review and Edinburgh Review. He was librarian of Glasgow
University in the period 1795 to 1823.
Muirhead
became Keeper of the Hunterian Museum 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 Anne Campbell. The biographer James Patrick Muirhead was
their son. n
