James Murray (leksikografer)

Sir James Murray
Sir James Murray
Lahir	James Murray; 7 Februari 1837; Denholm, Skotlandia
Meninggal	26 Juli 1915 (umur 78); Oxford, Oxfordshire, Inggris
Pekerjaan	Akademisi, leksikografer
Kebangsaan	Skotlandia

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (/ˈmʌri/; 7 Februari 1837 – 26 Juli 1915) adalah seorang leksikografer dan filologis asal Skotlandia. Ia adalah penyunting utama Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dari 1879 sampai kematiannya.^[1]^[2]

Referensi

Murray, KM Elisabeth (1977), Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (biography), Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-08919-8 (his granddaughter).
Ogilvie, Sarah (2012), Words of the World: a global history of the Oxford English Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107021839. (later editor on dictionary)
Winchester, Simon (2003), The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, OUP, ISBN 0-19-860702-4 .
Murray is also the "professor" referred to in ———, The Surgeon of Crowthorne (US: The Professor and the Madman), even though he was never actually granted a professorship by Oxford. Dr. William Chester Minor, a volunteer who worked on the dictionary, was the "madman".