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

see[2]

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. "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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