Mure, WILLIAM

Mure, WILLIAM, was born at Caldwell in Ayrshire in 1799, educated at Westminster and the universities of Edinburgh and Bonn, represented Renfrewshire 1846-55, was Lord Rector of Glasgow University 1847-48, and died in London, 1st April 1860. Colonel Mure was for many years commandant of the Renfrewshire militia. He was the author of A Critical Account of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece (5 vols. 1850-57), a work of sound scholarship and great learning; he maintains the unity of the Homeric poems. Mure also wrote Journal of a Tour in Greece (1842) and a couple of treatises on Egyptian chronology.