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WILLIAM MURE (1799–1860)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 34 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM
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MURE (1799–1860)  , Scottish classical
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scholar, was
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born at Caldwell,
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Ayrshire, on the 9th of
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July 1799 . He was educated at
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Westminster School and the
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universities of
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Edinburgh and Bcnn . From 1846 to 1855 he represented the
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county of
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Renfrew in
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parliament in the Conservative
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interest, and was
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lord
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rector of
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Glasgow University in 1847–1848 . For many years he devoted his leisure to
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Greek studies, and in 1850–1857 he published five volumes of a
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Critical
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History of the
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Language and Literature of
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Ancient
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Greece, which, though uncompleted and somewhat antiquated, is still useful . He died in
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London on the 1st of
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April ,86o .

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