James Murray
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He had no formal education after the age of fourteen but became a respected scholar by private study. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879.He had eleven children, the eldest Harold James Ruthven Murray becoming a prominent chess historian.
His biography was written by his granddaughter:
- Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary, K. M. Elisabeth Murray, Yale University Press, 2001, trade paperback, ISBN 0300089198
James Murray was lord of the Isle of Man from 1736-1764.External link
