George Muirhead

For the Australian farmer George Muirhead, see Principality of Marlborough.

George Muirhead (1715, Dunipace - 1773) was a Scottish linguist.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh (MA 1742), he was ordained as a Minister of the Kirk in 1746. He was professor of oriental languages at the University of Glasgow (1753-4), until his appointment as Chair of Humanity in 1754. Muirhead was elected Clerk of Senate in 1769.^[1]

The Muirhead Prizes are awarded in his memory.

References

^ "Biography of George Muirhead". The University of Glasgow Story. University of Glasgow. http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2349&type=P. Retrieved 22 September 2010.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Muirhead, George". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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Date of birth	1715
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Date of death	1773
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