William Mure (10 July 1799 – 1 April 1860)[1] was a Scottish scholar and Conservative politician.

[3] She was the eldest daughter of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741–1787) of Dunskey, Wigtownshire.

His first independent publication was Brief Remarks on the Chronology of the Egyptian Dynasties (against Champollion), issued in 1829; (London, 8vo).

[4] In 1838, Mure began a tour in Greece, leaving Ancona for Corfu on 17 February.

He published an interesting Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands in 1842 (Edinburgh, 8vo).

His principal work, A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece,[5] was issued 1850–7, London, 8vo ;[6][7] 2nd edit.