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Thomas Muir (24 August 1765 – 25 January 1799), also known as Thomas Muir the Younger of Huntershill, was a Scottish political reformer and lawyer. Muir graduated from Edinburgh University and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1787, aged 22. Muir was a leader of the Society of the Friends of the People .
Thomas Muir (Aug 1793) of Huntershill (1765 – 1799) Site sponsored by. Thomas Muir of Huntershill. As the leading voice of reform in Scotland, Muir suffered persecution and ultimately transportation for sedition for advocating democratic principles in Scotland.
Thomas Muir, often referred to as the “father of Scottish democracy”, is one of five men commemorated on the Political Martyrs’ Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The son of a hop merchant in Glasgow - the family lived at Huntershill House, Bishopbriggs - Muir studied at both Glasgow University and Edinburgh University, and had intended ...
Thomas Muir (1765-1799), lawyer, political activist and political convict, began studies at the University of Glasgow at the age of twelve. Having graduated in law in 1782, he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates at the age of twenty-two.
That same year, justifying the British state's paranoia, the United Irishmen – with support from Republican France – rebelled. These were dangerous, volatile times. A man who arguably personifies this period of radicalism and repression in Scotland is Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799).
- Michael Gray
- 2019
Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765-1799) is well known as a political reformer who was unjustly tried for sedition in 1793 and transported to Botany Bay. Some years before his sedition trial he had gained admission to the Faculty of Advocates and begun a legal career.
6 de jul. de 2020 · After more than 200 years, Thomas Muir of Huntershill has been restored to the roll of the Faculty of Advocates following a successful plea by Ross Macfarlane QC. Muir was an advocate and political reformer in late eighteenth-century Scotland who, during an age of revolution, promoted democratic ide.
