Robert Morehead
Scottish clergyman and poet
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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
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
