George Dunbar (classical scholar)

George Dunbar FRSE (30 March 1774 – 6 December 1851) was a Scottish classical scholar and lexicographer who authored a classical Greek dictionary, and Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh.

[1] In early life he was a gardener, however having been permanently injured by an accident, he instead chose to study the classics.

At about the age of 30 he moved to Edinburgh, and from 1800 to 1805 worked as a tutor to the family of Lord Provost Sir William Fettes.

[4][5] He died at his home Rose Park in Trinity in north Edinburgh[6] on 6 December 1851.

He deserves mention, however, for his Greek-English and English-Greek lexicon (1840), on the compilation of which he spent eight years.