MURRAY, James Augustus Henry, Scot tish philologist and lexicographer; b. Denholm, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, 1837; d. 26 July 1915. He was graduated RA. of London Uni versity, from 1855 till 1858 was an assistant master in Hawick Grammar School, becoming in the latter year master of Hawick Academy, for a few years was foreign correspondent to the Oriental Bank in London, and from 1870 till his removal to Oxford in 1885 a master at Mill Hill School. Meantime he had become well known as a philologist. He was president of the Philological Society in 1878-80 and 1882-84. On the death of Dr. Furnival, Dr. Murray became in 1879 general editor of the 'New English Dictionary on Historical Princi ples,' the great work issued under the auspices of the Philological Society from the Clarendon Press, Oxford. He was assisted by a staff of from 20 to 30 editors, and thousands of volun teer assistants, who read every book published before 1500 A.D. and the principal books since
that date, thus obtaining many millions of il lustrative references for use in the work. He had almost completed the tenth and last volume, T to Z, when he died. His aims in connection with this vast undertaking are embodied in an address to the Philological Society in 1879. Other works by him are 'A Week among the Antiquties of Orkney' (1861) ; (Dialects of the Southern Counties of Scotland' (1873);
opsis of Paley's Horce Pauline' (1872);