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William Mure
William Mure (1799 - 1860) was a Scottish scholar and politician.
The laird of Caldwell, Ayrshire, he was educated at Westminster School, Edinburgh, and Bonn. He sat in Parliament as member for Renfrewshire 1846-55.
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 Lord Rector of Glasgow University 1847-48.
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