James Moor (c.1712 - 1779)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Classical Greek scholar. Born in Glasgow, the son of a Mathematics teacher. Moor matriculated to study at the University of Glasgow in 1725, became a protégé of the Professor of Moral Philosophy, Francis Hutcheson, and graduated MA in 1732. He became the University’s librarian in 1742 and was Professor of Greek from 1746 to 1774. He was Dean of Faculty, 1756 to 1758 and was appointed Vice-Rector in 1759 and 1761. In 1763 he was awarded an honorary LLD, and he was elected Clerk of the University in 1766.

Moor was a founding member of the Glasgow Literary Society and collaborated with the University’s printers, the Foulis brothers, to publish their celebrated editions of Latin and Greek classics.