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ALEXANDER STUART MURRAY (1841-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 39 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:STUART See also:MURRAY (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 See also: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 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 .

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