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​MUIR, SIR WILLIAM (1819–1905), Indian administrator and principal of Edinburgh University, born in Glasgow on 27 April 1819, was youngest of four sons of William Muir, merchant in Glasgow, by his wife Helen Macfie, of an Ayrshire family.

John Muir [q.v.], the Sanskrit scholar, was his eldest brother. The eldest sister, Margaret, married the painter, Sir George Harvey [q.v.].

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Left a widow two years after William's birth, his mother took her four daughters to Kilmarnock, where William attended the grammer school. On the removal of the family to Manor Place, Edinburgh, he entered the university there, and subsequently the university of Glasgow.

Before he had the opportunity of graduating, his grand-uncle, Sir James Shaw [q. v.], chamberlain of the city of London, previously lord mayor, gave Mrs. Muir four writerships for the East India Company's civil service, and all her four sons went successively to Haileybu