Thomas Muir

100 - 102 Crowhill Road Bishopbriggs Glasgow G64 1RP

“I have devoted myself to the cause of the people.

It is a good cause… It shall ultimately prevail…

It shall finally triumph”

Thomas Muir (Aug 1793)

of Huntershill (1765 – 1799)

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The Herald	We should all have the courage to embrace the vision of Iain Banks	12 June 2013
Scotsman	John McTernan: Remember Bannockburn? I'd rather not, thanks	June 25, 2010
Bishopbriggs Herald	Letters to the Editor - Provost Eric Gotts	March 31, 2010
Evening Times	MSP calls for Muir statue	March 22, 2010
Bishopbriggs Herald	Honour thy father, pleads East Dunbartonshire MP	March 16, 2010
Sunday Post		March 14, 2010
Bishopbriggs Herald	Homegrown hero remembered Down Under	March 10, 2010
For Argyll	Scottish Parliament petitioned to commemorate Thomas Muir	March 2, 2010
The Times	Posthumous pardon sought for Thomas Muir, the ‘father of Scottish democracy’	February 27, 2010
Evening Times	Campaign for Muir statue	February 22, 2010
Bishopbriggs Herald	Why we must remember Bishopbriggs legend	December 15, 2009
Sunday Post		August 30, 2009
Bishopbriggs Herald	In the market for top produce in Bishopbriggs?	August 12, 2009
Bishopbriggs Herald	We can't forget Thomas...	August 5, 2009
Bishopbriggs Herald	This week, Alison Rennie talks to local history expert Don Martin.	March 30, 2004
Sunday Herald	Muir's the man for a' that; This week we will toast the so-called	January 19, 2003
The Herald	Tom Gallacher article, reference to BBC play he wrote	November 9, 2001

News Paper Articles

BBC local website article on the Thomas Muir Heritage Trail

Archive newspaper reports

General Evening Post (London, England), Thursday, February 6, 1794; Issue 9416

General Evening Post (London, England), Tuesday, September 10, 1793; Issue 9354

Glasgow Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), Saturday, June 27, 1896; Issue 154

Glasgow Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), Thursday, June 23, 1892; Issue 150

Lloyd's Evening Post (London, England), Monday, September 2, 1793; Issue 5648

London Chronicle (London, England), Saturday, May 24, 1794; Issue 5901

Morning Chronicle (London, England), Friday, February 1, 1793; Issue 7383

Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, July 29, 1795; Issue 8046

Morning Chronicle (London, England), Wednesday, March 13, 1793; Issue 7417

Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, March 8, 1794; Issue 6515

Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, August 14, 1793; Issue 6338

Morning Post and Fashionable World (London, England), Saturday, September 20, 1794; Issue 7063

St. James's Chronicle or the British Evening Post (London, England), Tuesday, September 3, 1793; Issue 5070

Star (London, England), Wednesday, March 13, 1793; Issue 1520

Sun (London, England), Friday, September 20, 1793; Issue 305

Sun (London, England), Saturday, August 10, 1793; Issue 270

Sun (London, England), Thursday, August 15, 1793; Issue 274

Sunday Reformer and Universal Register (London, England), Sunday, September 8, 1793; Issue XXII

Telegraph (London, England), Monday, August 24, 1795; Issue 204

Whitehall Evening Post (1770) (London, England), Saturday, March 8, 1794; Issue 7133