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	James Murray (lexicographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Murray was born on 7 February 1837 in the village of Denholm near Hawick in the Scottish Borders, the eldest son of a draper.
		Murray had eleven children, ten of these with Ada (and all having 'Ruthven' in their name, by arrangement with his father-in-law); the eldest, Harold James Ruthven Murray became a prominent chess historian.
		Murray is the "professor" referred to in the book The Professor and the Madman (UK title The Surgeon of Crowthorne), even though he was never a professor in his life, having worked mostly as a bank clerk or a schoolteacher before going into lexicography.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer) (757 words)

	James Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Murray, a 16th-century Scottish shipbuilder in the Polish service, counter-admiral during the Battle of Oliwa.
		James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl and lord of the Isle of Man from 1736-1764.
		James Murray (1721/22-1794), a British military officer and governor of Quebec in the 1700s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Murray (179 words)

	James Mouat - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Mouat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		James Mouat (VC, KCB) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
		James Mouat was born on April 14 1815, at Chatham, Kent, the son of Surgeon James Mouat MD who was medical officer to the 23rd, 25th, 21st, 16th,13th, F., 4th and 15th Dragoons.
		James Mouat, the son, was educated at University College Hospital, London, became MRCS in 1837, and proceeded FRCS in 1852.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/James-Mouat.html (768 words)

	MURRAY, JOHN (PUBLISHERS) - LoveToKnow Article on MURRAY, JOHN (PUBLISHERS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1774 Murray was sent to Minorca as governor, and in 1781, while be was in charge of this island, he was besieged in Fort St Philip by a large force of French and Spaniards.
		Murray was afraid to proceed with the charge on the day of trial, while Kirkaldy and Maitland held the castle, which became the stronghold of the deposed queen's party.
		Murray was closely connected with Constable, but, to his distress, was compelled in 1813 to break this association On account of Constable's business methods, which, as he foresaw, led to disaster.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MURRAY_JOHN_PUBLISHERS_.htm (2574 words)

	Encyclopedia: James Murray (lexicographer)
		Harold James Ruthven Murray (June 24, 1868 - May 16, 1955) born in Peckham Rye, London, son of James Murray (editor of the Oxford English Dictionary), the eldest of eleven children, was most prominent as a chess historian.
		Murrayâs approach to compiling the dictionary was to be similar to Samuel Johnsonâs in that the dictionary would use quotations to show the origins of words as well as their different meanings.
		In preparation for the work ahead Murray built a corrugated-iron shed in the grounds of Mill Hill School, called the Scriptorium, to house his small team of assistants as well as the flood of slips which started to flow in on foot of his appeal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-Murray-(lexicographer) (2217 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Murray Sir James Augustus Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry (1837-1915), Scottish lexicographer, born in Denholm, Roxburgshire.
		Franck, James (1882-1964), German-born American physicist, chemist, and Nobel laureate, born in Hamburg and educated at the universities of...
		Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838-1922), British historian, jurist, and statesman, one of the leaders of the Liberal party, and a staunch advocate...
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	james murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		James Murray, a British military officer and governor of Quebec in the 1700's
		James Murray, a British military officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the 1900's
		James Murray, lord of the Isle of Man from 1736-1764
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /James_Murray.html (153 words)

	Reading the Traces of James Murray in the Oxford English Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lexicographers depend too much on personal knowledge of words and things for their work to be strictly impersonal.
		Even when Murray was not quoting himself or inventing quotations, the sources of his quotations were often connected with his professional or personal life.
		Murray was not an Englishman, and the language he brought to his work was not that of an Englishman.
	www.verbatimmag.com /considine.html (1893 words)

	MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837— ) - Online Information article about MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837— )
		MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c.
		March 1879, and Murray began the examination and arrangement of the raw material, and the still more troublesome work of re-animating and maintaining the See also:
		account of its beginning and the manner of working up the materials will be found in Murray 's presidential address to the Philological Society in 1879, while reports of its progress are given in the addresses by himself and other presidents in subsequent years.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOS_NAN/MURRAY_SIR_JAMES_AUGUSTUS_HENRY.html (679 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		James Graham was the 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Montrose.
		From Denholm, Roxburgh, lexicographer and editor, James Murray undertook the awesome task of editing what was to become known as The Oxford English Dictionary, a vast collection that contains an inventory of words used in the English language since the 12th century and earlier.
		Philip Murray was born in Blantyre, Lanark in the heart of Scotland's industrial region.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/m6.html (2578 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His mantle fell on Frederick James Furnivall, an “eccentric of the fullest flower’’ who was an excellent sculler, and under him the project staggered and stalled and nearly died.
		Murray was a lowland Scot, a draper’s son who left school at 14 and never went to college because his family could not afford it.
		Murray did not look behind after that despite the meddling of and opposition from as redoubtable a person as Benjamin Jowett, who was vice-chancellor in the initial period of Murray’s editorship.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040423/asp/opinion/story_3163499.asp (703 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		"of or in the mode of James," 1875 in ref. to William James (1842-1910) U.S. philosopher and exponent of pragmatism; 1905 in ref. to his brother Henry James (1843-1916), U.S. expatriate novelist.
		"James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar.
		Political meaning first recorded 1600, derived from French, and was especially applied to the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty under James II in 1688 and transfer of sovereignty to William and Mary.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=james&searchmode=phrase (3591 words)

	Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
		James Murray was respected by Morris, Ellis, Sweat, Skeat--men instrumental in revolutionizing the science of etymology.
		Murray in his book The Professor and the Madman, which told the story of Murray and an American living in an English asylum named W. Minor.
		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.
	www.quizbox.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=0300089198 (961 words)

	James Murray (lexicographer) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish (A compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language) lexicographer and philologist.
		He had eleven children, the eldest (additional info and facts about Harold James Ruthven Murray) Harold James Ruthven Murray becoming a prominent (additional info and facts about chess historian) chess historian.
		He is the professor in the book (additional info and facts about The Surgeon of Crowthorne) The Surgeon of Crowthorne (US title The Professor and the Madman).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_murray_(lexicographer).htm (178 words)

	James Murray -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Murray joined the army in 1740 and served in the West Indies and Europe.
		Anne Murray emerged from a small town in Canada to become an international star and one of the most successful crossover artists of all time.
		During a career that began in the late 1960s and spanned three decades, Murray had over 50 country and 30 pop hits and produced an average of an album a year.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054364 (647 words)

	James H. Marsh
		The Canadian Encyclopedia is "a monument to the integrative power of culture, the myth of a fragile land, the limits of limited identities and the waning of a useful past.
		Mel Hurtig, the Edmonton publisher and high-profile nationalist, writes in his memoirs that he first had the idea for a new Canadian encyclopedia while sitting alone in a school library and growing despondent at the lack of Canadian reference works.
		James Marsh has bravely held up a reasonably unflawed mirror to his culture." All that work trying to represent the country now seemed to pay off.
	www.jameshmarsh.com /encyclopedia.htm (9848 words)

	AskOxford: The Oxford Word Searchers
		When James Murray, original editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, issued his ‘Appeal to the English-speaking and English-reading public’ in 1879, the response was huge.
		James Murray’s granddaughter Elisabeth wrote a famous book about her grandfather, Caught in the Web of Words, in which she reveals that: ‘Dictionary slips and their sorting became a major element in the lives of the Murray family…Every afternoon the children went to the Scriptorium to collect some packets of recently arrived slips.
		Murray wrote that in terms of contribution to the Dictionary by volunteer readers, ‘the supreme position is certainly held by Dr W. Minor of Broadmoor.
	www.askoxford.com /worldofwords/oed/wordsearchers (1069 words)

	appendicitis - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		Even though the word appendicitis was in use in 1885, the year in which the Oxford English Dictionary published the section "Anta-Battening" that would have contained the word, the editor, James Murray, omitted this "crack-jaw medical and surgical word" on the advice of Oxford's Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland.
		As K.M. Elisabeth Murray, the granddaughter and biographer of James Murray, points out, "The problem of what scientific words to include was a continuing one, and James Murray was always under pressure
		Appendicitis hence came into widespread use and has remained so, thereby pointing up the lexicographer's difficult task of selecting the new words that people will look for in their dictionaries.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/a/a0377200.html (181 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - James Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mason, James Murray (1798-1871), proslavery American congressman, who was one of two Confederate leaders imprisoned by Union forces in the...
		Stirling, James (1791-1865), British naval officer who explored the western coast of Australia and founded Perth and Fremantle, the first permanent...
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	Notes in the Margin Template
		When the young James asked his mother whether God is fl or white, she told him, "God is the color of water.
		The editor of the project was Professor James Murray, a scholarly former schoolmaster and bank clerk.
		A solemn servant showed the lexicographer upstairs, and into a book-lined study, where behind an immense mahogany desk stood a man of undoubted importance.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /biography.html (4037 words)

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		The collection was assembled by the firm of James F. Drake, Inc. in the 1930s and includes correspondence of Dorothy Furman, Francis W. Halsey, Temple Scott, as well as letters written by 19th-century American political and military figures, American and British literary figures, clerics, and actors.
		Drake's sons Marston E. and James H. Drake entered the firm in the teens, and by the time of the senior Drake's death the firm on West 40th Street was a mecca for bookmen in the New York area.
		Murray, James [Governor of the Provinces of Quebec and Minorca]--11.7
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00205.xml (2404 words)

	Alibris: Lexicographers
		The pianist, composer, conductor and now musical lexicographer recounts in fascinating detail a life that spans the whole of 20th-century music, ranging from his childhood in St. Petersburg through the Russian Revolution to his present career as a musical lexicographer.
		This book links the fascinating story of what eventually became the Oxford English Dictionary, to that of James A. Murray, its first editor and the driving force behind the dictionary.
		Murray's apparently obsessive nature was put to good use the O.E.D.'s compilation.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Lexicographers (695 words)

	Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1879 he assumed the editorship of the New English Dictionary (the Oxford English Dictionary), which was his life's work (see dictionary).
		Murray was a guiding force in this compilation, a triumph of modern scholarship, and its general plan and much of the work on details are to be credited to him.
		Pictures and Maps for: Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Murray-J1A1H1.asp (232 words)

	Sir James Murray -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Murray was a grammar-school teacher from 1855 to 1885, during which time he also wrote a famous article on the English…
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		Atholl, John Murray, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of, earl of Tullibardin, viscount of Balquhidder, Lord Murray, Balvany, and Gask
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054365 (640 words)

	MURRAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Search the MURRAY Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the MURRAY Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named MURRAY at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/M/MURRAY.htm (73 words)

	· You Got Style · Teacher, Scholar, Father — Sir James's Modest Accomplishments
		Murray was, you should know, at fourteen a Scottish school dropout who, by life's end, at last received the coveted Oxford D. Litt.
		As Winchester adds dryly, "Murray's application was not successful," but as he also avers, by life's end Murray's children's quite stellar careers had compensated him well for his bumpy start.
		For a more extended take on Murray's work, you might also read James Murray and The Oxford English Dictionary.
	www.yougotstyle.org /archives/000150.html (757 words)

	DictionaryCronnenwett
		Sir James Murray, the creator of the modern dictionary as we know it, commented that 'the English Dictionary, like the English Constitution, is the creation of no one man, and of no one age; it is a growth that has slowly developed itself adown the ages.'[2]
		Sir James Murray noted that 'Webster was a great man, a born definer of words.
		The task begun by Murray in 1879 was not finished for nearly forty years and the work exhausted Murray and his family.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1997/Cronenwett.html (3146 words)

	James Munro - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Munro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		James Munro - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation James Munro.
		James Munro was the pseudonym of a British writer named James William Mitchell (born 1926) who, in the late 1960s, wrote four superior spy thrillers under this byline.
		The hero is a British agent named John Craig, who works, mostly reluctantly, for Department K. The books, The Man Who Sold Death; Die Rich, Die Happy; The Money That Money Can't Buy; and The Innocent Bystanders were exceptionally tough-minded, well-written, and well-plotted.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/James-Munro.html (185 words)

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