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William Mure (exchequer)
William Mure may refer to: * William Mure (writer) (1594–1657) *William Mure (1718–1776), lawyer and politician * William Mure (died 1831), soldier, son of the lawyer, Rector of the University of Glasgow * William Mure (scholar) William Mure (10 July 1799 – 1 April 1860) was a Scottish scholar and Conservative politician. He sat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1855 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire and was Laird of Caldwell i ... (1799–1860), British Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire 1846–1855 * William Mure (1830–1880), British Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire 1874–1880 {{hndis, name = Mure, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mure (writer)
Sir William Mure of Rowallan (1594–1657) was a Scottish writer and politician. Early life William Mure was born in 1594, the son of Sir William Mure of Rowallan (1576–1639), an estate near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, his mother was Elizabeth Montgomerie, daughter of Hugh Montgomerie (d. 1558), the Laird of Hessilhead, and sister of the poet Alexander Montgomerie of Hessilhead, Hessilhead Castle near Beith. His grandfather, also Sir William Mure of Rowallan (1547–1616), had three daughters and three sons, William Mure of Rowallan, John Mure of Blacklaw, who was slain at Beith, and Hugh Mure of Skirnalland, of which his father, Sir William Mure of Rowallan, was the eldest. The Mure family was one of the oldest of the order of gentry in Scotland, and his ancestor, Elizabeth Mure, was the first wife of Robert II of Scotland, King Robert II of Scotland (1316–1390), and the father of Robert III of Scotland, King Robert III. Career Mure's early, unpublished works appear to date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mure (1718–1776)
William Mure (December 1718 – 25 March 1776), known as others of his family as William Mure of Caldwell, was a Scottish lawyer and politician. He became a baron of the Scots exchequer, and was a friend of Prime Minister Lord Bute and David Hume.William Mure Glasgow University (multi-tab page) Early life Mure was born late in 1718, the eldest son and successor to William Mure of Caldwell in and , by his wife Anne Stewart, daughter of Sir ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mure (died 1831) , British Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire 1874–1880
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William Mure may refer to: * William Mure (writer) (1594–1657) *William Mure (1718–1776), lawyer and politician * William Mure (died 1831), soldier, son of the lawyer, Rector of the University of Glasgow * William Mure (scholar) (1799–1860), British Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire 1846–1855 * William Mure (1830–1880) William Mure, of Caldwell (9 May 1830 – 9 November 1880) was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician. Early life He was the son of Laura Markham and William Mure (1799–1860), also a former MP for Renfrewshire. Mure was the nephew o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rector Of The University Of Glasgow
The (Lord) Rector of the University of Glasgow is one of the most senior posts within University of Glasgow, the institution, elected every three years by students. The theoretical role of the rector is to represent students to the senior management of the university and raise issues which concern them. In order to achieve this, the rector is the statutory chair of the University Court, Court, the governing body of the university. The position's place in the university was enshrined by statute in the ''Universities (Scotland) Act 1889'', which provided for the election of a rector at Ancient universities of Scotland, all of the universities in existence at the time in Scotland (being University of St Andrews, St Andrews, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh). Students of the University of Dundee also elect a Rector of the University of Dundee, rector. The previous rector, Aamer Anwar, a lawyer based in Glasgow, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mure (scholar)
William Mure (10 July 1799 – 1 April 1860) was a Scottish scholar and Conservative politician. He sat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1855 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire and was Laird of Caldwell in Ayrshire. Early life William Mure was born on 10 July 1799 at Caldwell House, near Ayrshire. He was the eldest son of William Mure of Caldwell (d. 1831), colonel of the Renfrew militia, and Lord Rector of Glasgow University from 1793 to 1794, and Anne Blair Mure (d. 1854). She was the eldest daughter of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741–1787) of Dunskey, Wigtownshire. His paternal grandfather was William Mure (1718–1776), Baron of the Exchequer, and a descendant of the Mures of Rowallan. His younger brother was M.P. and judge David Mure, Lord Mure (1810–1891). He was educated at Westminster School, at the University of Edinburgh, and afterwards in Germany at the University of Bonn. Succession Mure succeeded to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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