Robert Morehead

Robert Morehead FRSE (9 March 1777 – 13 December 1842) was a Scottish clergyman and poet who served as Dean of Edinburgh from 1818 to 1832.[1]

Life

St Paul's Chapel on York Place (opened 1818)

Morehead was born on 9 March 1777 near Stirling in central Scotland, the son of Isabella Lockhart and William Morehead FRSE (1737–1793).[2]

He studied divinity at Balliol College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1802. He held incumbencies at the Qualified Chapel in Leith, and in 1806 moved to the Cowgate Chapel in Edinburgh[3] In 1818 he became incumbent at the newly built St Paul's Chapel on York Place in the Edinburgh's New Town, serving alongside Rev Archibald Alison.[4] He was also dean of the city. In 1832 he left Edinburgh to be rector of Easington in Yorkshire.

In 1810 he lived at 1 Hill Street.[5] In the 1830s he is listed as living at 26 Hill Street in the centre of Edinburgh's New Town.[6] The building was demolished to create a small car park.

In 1817 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Archibald Alison and Henry Mackenzie. He resigned from the Society in 1837.[7]

He died on 13 December 1842.[8]

Family

He was married to Margaret Wilson. Their children included William Ambrose Morehead and Charles Morehead FRSE (1807–1882) an authority on tropical diseases.

Publications

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Morehead was a frequent contributor to the Edinburgh Review.

  • An Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste

References

  1. ^ 'EDINBURGH' The Aberdeen Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland), Wednesday, November 21, 1832; Issue 4428
  2. ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). www.royalsoced.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M p375 : Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
  4. ^ Storer, James; Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant) (1820). Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity;. Edinburgh, A. Constable & Co.; [etc., etc.] p. 311. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  5. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1810
  6. ^ "Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832–1833". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  7. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
  8. ^ 'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, December 22, 1842; Issue 22442
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