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date: 15 January 2021

Murray, Sir James Augustus Henrylocked

(1837–1915)
  • R. W. Burchfield

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Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry (1837–1915), lexicographer, was born in the village of Denholm, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, on 7 February 1837, the eldest of the four sons and one daughter of Thomas Murray (1811–1873), a village tailor, of Hawick, and his wife, Mary (1803–1888)...

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