Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Title
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Description
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (Fellow of the British Academy), first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, stands holding an open book in front of bookshelves and a high table. He is dressed in black, with a black hat and an impressive white beard. A caption states that he is in the Scriptorium at Banbury Road in Oxford, presumably the one he had built behind his home, where he and his team assembled the dictionary.
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
before 1910
File name
James-Murray.jpg
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Subject
Oxford English Dictionary
Rights
Public Domain. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James-Murray.jpg for details.
