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  James Murray - LoveToKnow 1911
He commanded a brigade at the siege of Louisburg, was one of Wolfe's three brigadiers in the expedition against Quebec, and commanded the left wing of the army in the famous battle in September 1759.
After the British victory and the capture of the city, Murray was left in command of Quebec; having strengthened its fortifications and taken measures to improve the morale of his men, he defended it in April and May 1760 against the attacks of the French, who were soon compelled to raise the siege.
In 1 774 Murray was sent to Minorca as governor, and in 1781, while he was in charge of this island, he was besieged in Fort St Philip by a large force of French and Spaniards.
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 Dr James Murray
Murray and his Dictionary colleagues had to keep track of new words and new meanings of existing words at the same time that they were trying to examine the previous seven centuries of the language's development.
Murray and his team did manage to publish the first part (or "fascicle", to use the technical term) in 1884, but it was clear by this point that a much more comprehensive work was required than had been imagined by the Philological Society almost thirty years earlier.
Murray welcomed co-operation from the doctor who conscientiously examined and proposed definitions for the dictionary, and then mailed them to Dr. Murray on notepaper with the heading of ‘Broadmoor.’ Murray never questioned the name of ‘Broadmoor’ assuming it to be an estate in the rolling English countryside.
www.electricscotland.com /history/men/james_murray.htm   (626 words)

  
 James Murray (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Murray (February 9, 1901 – July 11, 1936) was an American movie actor.
Vidor subsequently tracked him down, and Murray's performance in The Crowd was lauded by both the critics and the public.
In 1936, Murray drowned after falling from the string-piece of a pier into the Hudson River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Murray_(actor)   (330 words)

  
 James Murray - Biography - Moviefone
One of seven children of a New York insurance agent, James Murray was working as a doorman at the Capitol Theater on Broadway when he first landed a walk-on role.
Bitten by the acting bug, Murray went on to appear in The Pilgrims (1923), a three-reel short produced by Yale University.
In 1935, 35-year-old James Murray either fell or jumped off a New York pier and drowned in the Hudson River.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/james-murray/219949/biography   (239 words)

  
 James Murray, lexicographer
James Murray is one of Harlish Goop's heroes, and when you read his essay you'll see why he calls Murray "the greatest dictionary maker who ever lived".
Well, James Murray was a far more talented dictionary maker, despite his obscurity when compared with the fame of Dr. Johnson.
“James Murray will never make a farmer,” said the locals, “he always has a book in his pocket.” At the age of 14 his family’s poverty forced him into tailoring, his father’s trade, though three years later he won a position as an assistant schoolmaster.
www.bikwil.com /Vintage08/James-Murray.html   (1903 words)

  
 James Murray Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Murray was born on Jan. 21, 1721, at Ballencrief, Scotland.
In 1740 Murray was appointed a second lieutenant in Wynyard's Marines and served subsequently in the West Indies, Flanders, and Brittany and at the defense of Ostend in 1745.
In October 1760 Murray was appointed military governor, and, after the signing of peace between England and France in 1763, he became the first civil governor of Quebec.
www.bookrags.com /biography/james-murray   (465 words)

  
 Mason James Murray - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Mason, James Murray (1798-1871), proslavery American congressman, who was one of two Confederate leaders imprisoned by Union forces in the...
Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry (1837-1915), Scottish lexicographer.
James Augustus Henry Murray was born in Denholm, Roxburghshire.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Mason_James_Murray.html   (94 words)

  
 J. JAMES MURRAY, JR.
Murray, J., Stine, O.C., and Johnson, M.S. (1991) The evolution of mitochondrial DNA in Partula.
Johnson, M.S., Murray, J., and Clarke, B. (1993) The ecological genetics and adaptive radiation of Partula on Moorea.
Murray, J., Clarke, B., and Johnson, M.S. (1993) Adaptive radiation and community structure of Partula on Moorea.
www.virginia.edu /~biology/Fac/Murray.html   (229 words)

  
 James Murray, Star of Silent films
James T. Murray was born in New York City, on February 9, 1901, the second of nine brothers and sisters (including a pair of twins who died in infancy) born to Christopher Murray and Mary Casserly Murray.
James Murray was bitten by the acting bug while working as a doorman at the Capitol Theater on Broadway.
James' death was shrouded in mystery with a hint of scandal.
www.geocities.com /murraylar/james.html   (2875 words)

  
 James MURRAY, Shepherd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
James MURRAY was born about 1791, the son of James MURRAY and Janet AIKENHEAD.
Tom MURRAY (see photo at right) of Owen Sound, Ontario dedicated 50 years researching the story of James MURRAY and Margaret ANDERSON and has identified over 3100 of their descendants.
James MURRAY was born 05 August 1817 at Over Menzion (shown at left) in Tweedsmuir.
www.murrayofstanhope.com /james_murray,_shepherd.htm   (532 words)

  
 James Murray, 1952-2003
James Murray died on October 7, 2003, in his native Oswego, N.Y. natural salesman with enormous integrity, his career began in the early '80s at Express Sound and New West, a rep firm in Burbank, Calif. Murray eventually became Western regional manager for Panasonic/Ramsa and then added the Eastern states.
Murray survived a car crash in the mid-'90s, in which a tree branch struck through his midsection; he would later joke about his near-death experience.
James was one of the warmest people I'd ever met, a good friend to all who knew him and will be missed.
mixonline.com /mag/audio_james_murray   (195 words)

  
 James Murray Children
MURRAY I, born 1814 in SC; died in Texas.
MURRAY, born August 15, 1821 in Wayne County, Mississippi; died December 31, 1897 in Near Rockdale, Milam Co, TX.
James Franklin MURRAY, born 1836 in Simpson County, Mississippi.
home.earthlink.net /~willpaz/Murray/jamesmurraychildren.htm   (597 words)

  
 James Murray - Murray of Broughton - at James Boswell - a guide
Murray's mother was sister of Catherine Stewart's father, making Murray and his wife first cousins.
James Murray built the impressive Cally House for himself in 1763.
Murray and his wife arrived at Patrick Heron's estate Kirroughtrie on September 22, 1762.
www.jamesboswell.info /People/biography-105.php   (304 words)

  
 James Murray Mason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
James Murray Mason, a descendant of a prominent Virginia family, became a lawyer and served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis chose James Mason to serve as the Confederacy's envoy to England.
Fascinating Fact: It was James Mason who, as a U.S. Senator, drafted the Fugitive Slave Act, which passed both houses of Congress in 1850.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /ForeignInfluences/jamesmurraymason.html   (338 words)

  
 James Murray, Mill Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
James MURRAY was born 06 September 1832 at Darlingshaugh in Galashiels.
James MURRAY was diagnosed with heart disease in 1889 and indeed died of heart failure on 07 July 1894 at 14 Dovecot Park in Selkirk.
James and Janet had a son named James who was born about 1899 in Glasgow.
www.murrayofstanhope.com /jamesmurraymillforeman.htm   (459 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - James Murray (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
James Murray 1721?–94, British general, first civil governor of Canada, b.
He went to Canada as an army officer in 1757 and was prominent at the siege of Louisburg (1758) and in the crucial battle on the Plains of Abraham.
Murray was given command of Quebec and withstood the efforts of the French.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Murray-Ja.html   (251 words)

  
 James Murray - Muppet Wiki - A Wikia wiki
James Murray - Muppet Wiki - A Wikia wiki
James Murray is a freelance puppeteer who has occasionally worked on Henson/Muppet productions.
Outside of the Muppets, in partnership with fellow puppeteer Kevin Carlson, Murray co-produced, performed, and built puppets for the direct to video series The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth, and performed regularly on Greg the Bunny.
muppet.wikia.com /wiki/James_Murray   (197 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary: Books: K.M. Elisabeth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Murray, an autodidact from a rich tradition of self-taught scholarship in the Border counties of Scotland, proved to be the perfect man for the gargantuan task of editing the OED.
James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, was a gentle man of words who dedicated his life to the study of the English Language.
James Murray was respected by Morris, Ellis, Sweat, Skeat--men instrumental in revolutionizing the science of etymology.
www.amazon.com /Caught-Web-Words-English-Dictionary/dp/0300063105   (1789 words)

  
 James Murray
Sir James Augustus Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist.
He had eleven children, the eldest Harold James Ruthven Murray was a prominent chess historian.
He is the professor in the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (US title The Professor and the Madman).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/dr/Dr._James_Murray.html   (113 words)

  
 James D. Murray
Professor Murray was awarded his baccalaureate degree in mathematics and doctorate in applied mathematics at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) in 1953 and 1956 respectively.
Professor Murray's research interests are in mathematical biology, mainly the application of mathematical modelling in medicine, psychology, ecology, epidemiology and developmental biology.
Prior to coming to Washington, he was Professor of Mathematical Biology and Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford.
www.amath.washington.edu /people/faculty/murray   (417 words)

  
 James Murray - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
One of seven children of a New York insurance agent, James Murray was working as a doorman at the Capitol Theater on Broadway when he first landed...
Murray's biography was written by his grand-daughter, K. Elisabeth Murray: Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary...
General Sir James Murray (general), a British military officer and Chief of the...
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 James Murray Productions
Conceived in the early part of the 21st century, the result of a torrid, one-night escapade gone comedically awry, James Murray birthed 'Criss-Cross' shortly thereafter.
Armed with nothing more than a video camera and a mound of determination, James took his newborn idea to the streets and secretly began filming real, everyday folks doing what they do best…stuff, and a whole lot of other things.
In front of a live audience, James drops out the audio, then brings in his crack team of improvisors to 'dub' what they believe these people 'might' be saying.
www.jamessmurray.com /crisscross_about.html   (196 words)

  
 28th Wisconsin Regiment: Captain James Murray, Co. H   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
James Murray, County Judge, came to Nebraska and located in Everett Precinct, in May, 1872, and engaged in farming until he was elected County Judge in 1881; he was Justice of the Peace, and Deputy County Clerk for several years; he was born in Rochester, N. Y., on August 13, 1833.
He was married to Catherine Slane, a native of Waukesha County, Wis., in April, 1866; she died at Waukesha, November, 1870, leaving three children -- Mark W., Mary A. and Catherine.
Patrick Hanley's great-great grandson David Bunzel for locating this obituary and the portrait of Capt. Murray.
www.28thwisconsin.com /veterans/j_murray.html   (297 words)

  
 James MURRAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The 1800 Census listed James with 6 children, ages from 6 to 25, no wife.
Family stories had James as dying in Kentucky, but I find no records to support this.
James gave all his property to his wife for life, then to daughters Elizabeth and Ruth.
www.laurahenderson.com /genealogy/genweb/ps09/ps09_376.html   (267 words)

  
 James Murray (lexicographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maggie, too, fell ill with tuberculosis, and on the advice of doctors, the couple moved to London to escape the Scottish winters.
He had ‘sufficient knowledge of Hebrew and Syriac to read at sight the Old Testament and Peshito’ and to a lesser degree he knew Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic and Phoenician.
Note the pillar box in front of the house with the blue plaque behind, installed in 2002 [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer)   (820 words)

  
 James Murray Mason Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Murray Mason (1798-1871), U.S. Senator and Confederate diplomat, is best known for his authorship of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and his Confederate mission to England.
James M. Mason was born on Nov. 3, 1798, at Georgetown, D.C. After an excellent elementary education, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818.
He studied law at the College of William and Mary and established his law practice at Winchester, Va., in 1820.
www.bookrags.com /biography/james-murray-mason   (427 words)

  
 James Murray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
James currently studies audio design at Columbia College - Chicago, and recently completed the sound design for Unchanging Love and the 7th Annual Cut to the Chase one-act festival.
His sound artistry can be heard in the late night Savage Love, which opens December 1st.
Before moving to Chicago, James earned a B.A. in vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he studied with baritone Paul Rowe and jazz bassist Richard Davis.
www.theartistichome.org /James_Murray.htm   (156 words)

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