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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:LINDLEY (1745–1826) , Anglo-See also:American grammarian, was See also:born at Swatara, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of See also:April 1745. His See also:father, a Quaker, was a leading New See also:York See also:merchant. At the See also:age of fourteen he was placed in his father's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but he ran away to a school in See also:Burlington, New See also:Jersey. He was brought back to New York, but his arguments against a commercial career prevailed, and he was allowed to study See also:law. On being called to the See also:bar he practised successfully in New York. In 1783 he was able to retire, and in 1784 he See also:left See also:America for See also:England. Settling at Holgate, near York, he devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to See also:literary pursuits. His first See also:book was See also:Power of See also:Religion on the Mind (1787). In 1795 he issued his See also:Grammar of the See also:English See also:Language. This was followed, among other analogous See also:works, by English Exercises, and the English Reader. These books passed through several See also:editions, and the Grammar was the See also:standard textbook for fifty years throughout England and America. Lindley Murray died on the 16th of See also:January 1826.
See the Memoir of the Life and Writings of Lindley Murray (partly autobiographical), by See also:Elizabeth See also:Frank (1826) ; Life of Murray, by W. H. Egle (New York, 1885).
End of Article: MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
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