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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William Mure (1799–1860)

Mure, William. A Scottish historian; born near Caldwell, Ayrshire, July 9, 1799; died in London, April 1, 1860. He was Member of Parliament for Renfrew, 1846–55; and rector of Glasgow University, 1847–48. He wrote: ‘History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece’ (5 vols., 1850–57), his main work, but left unfinished; ‘Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands’ (1842); etc.