Murray
Murray names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Murray JAMES STUART, EARL OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES STUART, EARL OF, Regent of Scotland, the natural son of James V. by Margaret, daughter of Lord Erskine; born in 1533. He became a warm supporter of the Reformers, and was chosen a member of the council, and one of the lords of the articles. On the return of Mary to Scotland as queen, Murray became her chief adviser, and was created first, Earl of Mar, and then Earl of Murray. He was opposed to the queen's marriage with Darnley, and has been accused of implication in the murder of the latter. He saw his sister a captive in Lochleven Castle, and was soon after named regent. Mary having escaped and taken arms, he encountered and defeated her at Langside, in 1568, and was one of the witnesses against her on her trial. The regent Murray fell by the shot of an assassin in Linlithgow, Jan. 21, 1570.
Murray ARTHUR, American soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR, American soldier; born in Bowling Green, Mo., in 1851, he graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1874 and was admitted to the bar at St. Louis in 1895. Meanwhile he had been appointed 2d lieutenant of the 1st U. S. artillery and instructor in philosophy at the U. S. Military Academy. He was acting judge - advocate for the Department of Missouri from 1887 to 1891 and acting adjutant-general of the Department of Dakota in 1891. He was professor of military science at Yale 1896-1898 and acting judge-advocate of the 1st Army Corps and of Matanzas and Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1899. He became brigadier-general in 1906 and major - general in 1911, retiring in 1915. His works include: "A Manual for Court-Martial" and "Manual of Arms."
Murray the largest river in Australia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the largest river in Australia, rising in the Australian Alps about 36° 40' S. and 147° E., its source being partly in New South Wales, partly in Victoria. It flows for a long distance , forming W. the boundary between the two colonies, then passes into South Australia, where it takes a S. direction, and falls into the sea through a large shallow sheet of water called Lake Alexandrina. There is a sandbar at the mouth which impedes navigation, but small steamers ascend the river as high as Albury, 1,700 miles from its mouth. Its chief tributaries are the Murrumbidgee, the Darling, and the Lachlan. The Darling before its junction with the Murray may even be considered the main stream.
Murray SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY, a British lex lexicographer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY, a British lex lexicographer; born in Denholm, Roxburgshire, Scotland, in 1837. He has long been compiling "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (first number 1888), founded mainly on materials collected by the Philological Society. The aim of this dictionary "is to furnish an adequate account of the meaning, origin, and history of English words now in general use, or known to have been in use at any time during the past 700 years." Its purpose is "not to dictate to usage, but to record usage." Dr. Murray also published "Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland," and similar philological studies ies. He died in 1915.
Murray LINDLEY, an American grammarian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LINDLEY, an American grammarian; born in Swatara, Lancaster co., Pa., April 22, 1745. He received his primary education in Philadelphia in the academy of the Society of Friends. He studied the law, and practiced as a barrister; but in course of time he left the bar for the counting house, and havrealized a competency, he went, in ing real 1784, to England, and settled at Holdgate, near York. His "English Grammar" appeared in 1795. He soon after published the "English Exercises and These were followed by many Key." other school-books, and several moral treatises. He died in Holdgate, England, Feb. 16, 1826.
Murray DAVID CHRISTIE, an English novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DAVID CHRISTIE, an English novelist; born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, April 13, 1847. He had served as reporter and then as war correspondent (1877-1878) for several newspapers, when in 1879 he published "A Life's Atonement" in "Chamber's Journal." In the same journal appeared "Val Strange" and "John Vale's Guardian." Other works are "By the Gate of the Sea"; "The Way of the World"; "Aunt Rachel"; "Old Blazer's Hero"; "The Weaker Vessel"; "A Dangerous Catspaw"; etc. In 1889 went on the stage. He died Aug. 2, 1907.
Murray SIR JOHN, British army officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JOHN, British army officer; born in 1853. Educated at Harrow and Woolwich. Entered the Royal Artillery 1872; served during the Ashanti campaign in 1895; in Natal 1899-1900; Quartermaster - General, India, 1903-1904; of the 9th Division in India Commander of in 1907-1911, and of the Imperial troops in South Africa. In 1915 General Murray succeeded Sir John French as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff. Was made a K. C. B. in 1900.
Murray JOHN, founder of Universalism in the United States
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, founder of Universalism in the United States; born in Alton, Eng., Dec. 10, 1741; died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 3, 1815.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Two of these eight have grown far beyond what Collier's could see in 1921. Sir James Augustus Henry Murray is described as still "long compiling" his New English Dictionary; it was finished in 1928, thirteen years after his death, and is now the Oxford English Dictionary, revised continuously online rather than in numbered parts. The Murray River is no longer bounded by "colonies" but by states, and is now one of the most heavily engineered rivers on earth, dammed at Hume from the 1930s, ladders of locks and weirs downstream, its mouth kept open by dredges during the drought years of the 2000s and its water shared under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan of 2012. Of the rest, the Regent of Scotland is now usually spelled Moray and remembered for being shot at Linlithgow in 1570 in what is often called the first assassination of a head of government by firearm; John Murray's Universalists merged with the Unitarians in 1961 to form the Unitarian Universalist Association; and Lindley Murray, whose English Grammar of 1795 once drilled millions of schoolchildren, the novelist David Christie Murray and the American artillery officer Arthur Murray have all but vanished from general reference.
Written for this edition, 2026.