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.

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. 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 University.

Family

Muirhead married Anne Campbell. The biographer James Patrick Muirhead was their son.

External links

• CERL page

Muirhead and Boulton family tree

John Muirhead 1685–1759 Margaret Syme 1685–1753 John Muirhead 1704–1755 Janet Bogle b. 1704 George Muirhead 1715–1773 Patrick Muirhead 1718–1807 Elizabeth Muirhead 1728–1779 James Campbell Marion Muirhead b. 1739 Matthew Boulton 1728–1809 Anne Robinson 1730–1783 Lockhart Muirhead 1765–1829 Anna Campbell 1769–1842 Mary Anne Wilkinson 1796–1829 Matthew Robinson Boulton 1770–1842 William Ralph Cartwright 1771–1847 James Patrick Muirhead 1813–1898 Katharine Boulton 1819–1890 Matthew Piers Watt Boulton 1820–1894 Frances Eliza Cartwright 1817–1864 Herbert Hugh Muirhead 1850–1904