Thomas Muir

(1765-1799)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Muir, Thomas, 1765-1798 DNB: Muir, Thomas (1765–1799), political reformer LBT ID: ThMuir1799 VIAF ID: 52911929 LOC ID: n82085487	B/BAP: 1765-08-24 DIED: 1799-01-26
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Scottish advocate educated at Glasgow University; in 1793 he was convicted of sedition and sentenced to transportation; he escaped from New South Wales and died in France.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Muir: William Roscoe to Lord Lansdown, [December? 1793] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Godwin, Unpublished letter to The Morning Chronicle [3 March 1794] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter IV. 1788-1796 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 24 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 3: ¶ 61 ¶ 63 ¶ 84