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Sir William Muir (1819-1905) was [[Principal]] of Edinburgh University from 1885 to 1903. ...went many changes as a result of the [[Universities (Scotland) Act 1889]]. Muir resigned in 1903 because of ill health and died at Dean Park House in Edinb

...px | right | thumb | John Home (1722-1808), engraved by John Rogers after Sir Henry Raeburn (1835), [[James Clarkson Corson (1905-1988)|Corson Collection ...t of volunteers in Glasgow. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Falkirk Muir (17 January 1746), the last Jacobite military success, but contrived to esc