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JOHN MURRAY (2) (1778-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:MURRAY (2) (1778-1843)  , his son, was then fifteen . During his minority the business was conducted by See also:Samuel Highley, who was admitted a partner, but in 1803 the partner-See also:ship was dissolved . See also:Murray soon began to show the courage in See also:literary See also:speculation which earned for him later the name given him by See also:Lord See also:Byron of " the Anak of publishers." In 1807 he took a See also:share with See also:Constable in See also:publishing Marmion, and became See also:part owner of the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review, although with the help of See also:Canning he launched in opposition the Quarterly Review (Feb . 1809), with See also:William See also:Gifford as its editor, and See also:Scott, Canning, See also:Southey, Hookham See also:Frere and See also:John See also:Wilson See also:Croker among its earliest contributors . Murray was closely connected with Constable, but, to his See also:distress, was compelled in 1813 to break this association on See also:account of Constable's business methods, which, as he foresaw, led to disaster . In 1811 the first two cantos of Clzilde Harold were brought to Murray by R . C . See also:Dallas, to whom Byron had presented them . Murray paid Dallas 500 guineas for the See also:copyright . In 1812 he bought the publishing business of William See also:Miller (1769-1844), and migrated to 50, See also:Albemarle See also:Street . Literary See also:London flocked to his See also:house, and Murray became the centre of the publishing See also:world . It was in his See also:drawing-See also:room that Scott and Byron first met, and here, in 1824, after the See also:death of Lord Byron, the MS. of his See also:memoirs, considered by Gifford unfit for publication, was destroyed .

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close friendship existed between Byron and his publisher; but for See also:political reasons business relations ceased after the publication of the 5th See also:canto of See also:Don Juan . Murray paid Byron some £20,000 for his various poems . To See also:Thomas See also:Moore he gave nearly 5000 for See also:writing the See also:life of Byron, and to See also:Crabbe £3000 for Tales of the See also:Hall . He died on the 27th of See also:June 1843 . His son, JOHN MURRAY (3) (1808-1892), inherited much of his business tact and See also:judgment . " Murray's Handbooks " for travellers were issued under his editorship, and he himself wrote several volumes (see his See also:article on the " Handbooks " in Murray's See also:Magazine, See also:November 1889) . He published many books of travel; also See also:Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, The See also:Speaker's Commentary, See also:Smith's Dictionaries; and See also:works by See also:Hallam, See also:Gladstone, See also:Lyell, See also:Layard, See also:Dean See also:Stanley, See also:Borrow, See also:Darwin, Living-See also:stone and Samuel See also:Smiles . He died on the 2nd of See also:April 1892, and was succeeded by his eldest son, JOHN MURRAY (4) (b.1851), under whom, in association with his See also:brother, A . H . Hallam Murray, the See also:firm was continued . See Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and his See also:Friends, Memoirs and See also:Correspondence of the See also:late John Murray ... (1891), for the second John Murray; a See also:series of three articles by F .

Espinasse on " The House of Murray," in The Critic (See also:

Jan . 186o) ; and a See also:paper by the same writer in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (See also:Sept . 1885) . See the Letters and See also:Journals of Byron (ed . Prothero, 1898-1901) .

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