LINDLEY

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)
• LINDLEY MURRAY (1745–1826)
• MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
• MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
• MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )

MURRAY (1745–1826)  , Anglo-American grammarian, was born at Swatara, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of April 1745 . His father, a Quaker, was a leading New York merchant . At the age of fourteen he was placed in his father's office, but he ran away to a school in Burlington, New Jersey . He was brought back to New York, but his arguments against a commercial career prevailed, and he was allowed to study law . On being called to the bar he practised successfully in New York . In 1783 he was able to retire, and in 1784 he left America for England . Settling at Holgate, near York, he devoted the rest of his life to literary pursuits . His first book was Power of Religion on the Mind (1787) . In 1795 he issued his Grammar of the English Language . This was followed, among other analogous works, by English Exercises, and the English Reader . These books passed through several editions, and the Grammar was the standard textbook for fifty years throughout England and America . Lindley Murray died on the 16th of January 1826 .

See the Memoir of the Life and Writings of Lindley Murray (partly autobiographical), by

Elizabeth Frank (1826) ; Life of Murray, by W . H . Egle (New York, 1885) .