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See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
MURRAY, See also:ALEXANDER See also:STUART (1841-1904) , See also:British archaeologist, was See also:born at See also:Arbroath on the 8th of See also:January 1841, and educated there, at See also:Edinburgh high school and at the See also:universities of Edinburgh and See also:Berlin. In 1867 he entered the British Museum as an assistant in the See also:department of See also:Greek and See also:Roman antiquities under See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Newton, whom he succeeded in 1886. His younger See also:brother, See also:George See also:Robert Milne Murray (b. 1858), was made keeper of the botanical department in 1895, the only instance of two See also:brothers becoming heads of departments at the museum. In 1873 Dr Murray published a See also:Manual of See also:Mythology, and in the following See also:year contributed to the Contemporary See also:Review two articles—one on the Homeric question—which led to a friendship with Mr See also:Gladstone, the other on Greek painters. In 1880–1883 he brought out his See also:History of Greek See also:Sculpture, which at once became a See also:standard See also:work. In 1886 he was selected by the Snciet.v of Antiquaries of See also:Scotland to deliver the Rhind lectures on See also:archaeology, out of
which See also:grew his Handbook of Greek Archaeology (1892). In 1894–1896 Dr Murray directed some excavations in See also:Cyprus undertaken by means of a See also:bequest of £2000 from See also:Miss Emma Tournour See also:Turner. The See also:objects obtained are described and illustrated in Excavations in Cyprus, published by the trustees of the museum in 1900. Among Dr Murray's other See also:official publications are three See also:folio volumes on Terra-See also:cotta Sarcophagi, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White Athenian Vases and Designs from Greek Vases. In 1898 he wrote for the See also:Portfolio a monograph on Greek bronzes, founded on lectures delivered at the Royal See also:Academy in that year, and he contributed many articles on archaeology to standard publications. In recognition of his services to archaeology he was made LL.D. of See also:Glasgow University in 1887 and elected a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1900. He died in See also:March 1904.
End of Article: MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
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