Background
Born at The Grove, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he was son of Lockhart Muirhead. George Muirhead was his great-uncle.
Born at The Grove, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he was son of Lockhart Muirhead. George Muirhead was his great-uncle.
He was educated first at Glasgow College.
Gaining on 3 February 1832 a Snell exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, he matriculated there on 6 April 1832. Spending his long vacations in Alpine expeditions, and in the study of German rather than in working for honours, he took a third class in literature hum. on graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1835 (Master of Arts 1838). Admitted advocate at Edinburgh in 1838, Muirhead practised law in Edinburgh.
Muirhead died in his eighty-sixth year, on 15 October 1898.
In 1844 Muirhead married Katharine Elizabeth, second daughter of Matthew Robinson Boulton. Lionel"s son, Anthony, was Member of Parliament for Wells in Somerset from 1929 to 1939.