Lockhart Muirhead

Lockhart Muirhead (1765–1829) was a Scottish librarian, museum-keeper and academic. He was Regius Professor of Zoology at Glasgow University, from 1807.^[1]

Life

Muirhead travelled 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.^[2] He was librarian of Glasgow University in the period 1795 to 1823.^[1]

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 University.^[1]

Family

Muirhead married Anne Campbell. The biographer James Patrick Muirhead was their son.^[3]

Notes

1. University of Glasgow, Special Collections, Lockhart Muirhead
2. David N. Livingstone; Charles W. J. Withers (2011). Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science. University of Chicago Press. pp. 329–30. ISBN 978-0-226-48726-7.
3. Hills, Richard L. "Muirhead, James Patrick". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19507. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

• CERL page