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JOHN MURRAY

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

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