Up for auction 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, from

1807.

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.

Muirhead

married Anne Campbell. The biographer James Patrick Muirhead was

their son. n