William Mure (scholar)

For other people named William Mure, see William Mure (disambiguation).

William Mure

William Mure (10 July 1799 – 1 April 1860) was a Scottish scholar and politician. He sat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1846–55 as the Conservative MP for Renfrewshire and was Laird of Caldwell in Ayrshire.

Mure attended the Westminster School in London before going on to study at the University of Edinburgh and in the German city of Bonn.

He was a sound classical scholar, and published A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece in five volumes between 1850 and 1857). He held the view that the Iliad and Odyssey are now substantially as they were originally composed. Mure was Rector of the University of Glasgow 1847–48.

Mure is buried in the parish church of Neilston.

Mure married on the 7th of February 1825 Laura Markham daughter of William Markham and Elizabeth Bowles, Granddaughter of William Markham the Archbishop of York and Great Granddaughter of the 4th Lord Elton of the Elton Baronets.

References

• From Caldwell to Tasmania

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Mure

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Patrick Maxwell Stewart	Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire 1846–1855	Succeeded by Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, Bt.
Academic offices
Preceded by Lord John Russell	Rector of the University of Glasgow 1847—1848	Succeeded by Thomas Babington Macaulay