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MURRAY, JOHN

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 41 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MURRAY, See also:JOHN , the name for several generations of a See also:great See also:firm of See also:London publishers, founded by John McMurray (1745-'793), a native of See also:Edinburgh and a retired See also:lieutenant of See also:marines, who in 1768 bought the See also:book business of See also:William See also:Sandby in See also:Fleet See also:Street, and, dropping the Scottish prefix, called himself John Murray. He was one of the twenty See also:original proprietors of the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle, and started the monthly See also:English See also:Review (1783-1796). Among his publications were See also:Mitford's See also:Greece, See also:Langhorne's See also:Plutarch's Lives, and the first See also:part of See also:Isaac D'See also:Israeli's Curiosities of Literature.

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