- Murphy Brown (American television program)
Candice Bergen: …a star television journalist, in Murphy Brown. The groundbreaking show was extremely popular and became a cultural touchstone. Bergen was nominated seven consecutive times for Emmy Awards for her performance, winning five times (1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1995); after her fifth win she declined further nominations. When Murphy became…
- Murphy’s Law (film by Thompson [1986])
Charles Bronson: …That Men Do (1984), and Murphy’s Law (1986). In other movies he revealed humanity and tenderness beneath the toughness, as in Sean Penn’s The Indian Runner (1991) and the TV movie Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991).
- Murphy’s Station (California, United States)
Sunnyvale, city, Santa Clara county, western California, U.S. Adjacent to the cities of Santa Clara and Mountain View, Sunnyvale lies at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, near San Jose. Settled in 1850, it was known as Murphy’s Station (later as Encinal), but it was renamed Sunnyvale in 1912
- Murphy, Annie (Canadian actress)
Eugene Levy: American Pie and Schitt’s Creek: …Levy) and Alexis Rose (Annie Murphy). After losing their immense wealth, the Roses are forced to move to the small town of Schitt’s Creek, which Johnny Rose bought as a joke for his son. Initially just a modest success, the show became a mainstream hit in 2017, when it…
- Murphy, Audie (American war hero and actor)
Audie Murphy was an American war hero and actor who was one of the most-decorated U.S. soldiers of World War II. Murphy joined the army in 1942, having falsified his birth certificate in order to enlist before he was eligible. (Thus, some sources incorrectly give 1924 as his birth year.) During
- Murphy, Audie Leon (American war hero and actor)
Audie Murphy was an American war hero and actor who was one of the most-decorated U.S. soldiers of World War II. Murphy joined the army in 1942, having falsified his birth certificate in order to enlist before he was eligible. (Thus, some sources incorrectly give 1924 as his birth year.) During
- Murphy, Brittany (American actress and singer)
Emma: Legacy: Knightley), Brittany Murphy as Tai (Harriet), and Jeremy Sisto as Elton (Mr. Elton). Unlike the original novel, Clueless is set in Beverly Hills, California, in the mid-1990s. The film achieved cult status in the 21st century. Other notable screen adaptations of Emma were released in 1996…
- Murphy, Charles M. (American athlete)
cycling: Early history of the sport: …when one of these riders, Charles M. Murphy, rode on a wooden track behind a Long Island Rail Road train and covered a mile in 57.8 seconds, earning the nickname of Mile-a-Minute Murphy.
- Murphy, Chris (United States senator)
Chris Murphy is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and began representing Connecticut in that body the following year. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–13). Murphy was born in a suburb of New York City. When he was a child,
- Murphy, Christopher Scott (United States senator)
Chris Murphy is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and began representing Connecticut in that body the following year. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–13). Murphy was born in a suburb of New York City. When he was a child,
- Murphy, Cillian (Irish actor)
Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor known for his striking looks and intense performances. His breakout role came in the hit zombie film 28 Days Later (2002), but Murphy is perhaps best known for his performances in several blockbuster movies directed by Christopher Nolan, including Oppenheimer
- Murphy, Eddie (American actor and comedian)
Eddie Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer who was a dominant comedic voice in the United States during the 1980s. His comedy was largely personal and observational and at times raunchy.. He is also a skillful impersonator. Murphy began doing stand-up comedy in New York City as a
- Murphy, Edward Regan (American actor and comedian)
Eddie Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer who was a dominant comedic voice in the United States during the 1980s. His comedy was largely personal and observational and at times raunchy.. He is also a skillful impersonator. Murphy began doing stand-up comedy in New York City as a
- Murphy, Emily (Canadian lawyer and writer)
Famous 5: Led by judge Emily Murphy, the group included Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney, and Irene Parlby. Together, the five women, who lived in the Canadian province of Alberta, had many years of active work in various campaigns for women’s rights dating back to the 1880s…
- Murphy, Erin (American actress)
Bewitched: …have two children, Tabitha (Erin Murphy) and Adam (David Lawrence).
- Murphy, Frank (United States jurist)
Frank Murphy was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1940 until his death. He was noted for his militant defense of individual liberties and civil rights and for his insistence on doing substantial justice irrespective of legal technicalities. Murphy studied at the
- Murphy, George Lloyd (American actor and politician)
George Lloyd Murphy was an American actor and politician who was remembered as an amiable song-and-dance man in a succession of Hollywood musicals in the 1930s and ’40s and as a U.S. senator from California (1965–71). Murphy attended Yale University but dropped out in his junior year and began
- Murphy, Gerald (American expatriate)
Gerald Murphy and Sara Murphy: Gerald Murphy, the son of the founder of the Mark Cross Company, a New York leather-goods and specialty store, graduated from Yale University (1912) and attended the Harvard School of Landscape Design (1918–20). Sara Wiborg, from a well-to-do Cincinnati family, attended private schools in Europe…
- Murphy, Gerald Clery (American expatriate)
Gerald Murphy and Sara Murphy: Gerald Murphy, the son of the founder of the Mark Cross Company, a New York leather-goods and specialty store, graduated from Yale University (1912) and attended the Harvard School of Landscape Design (1918–20). Sara Wiborg, from a well-to-do Cincinnati family, attended private schools in Europe…
- Murphy, Gerald; and Murphy, Sara (American expatriates)
Gerald Murphy and Sara Murphy were wealthy American expatriates in Paris and Antibes, France, during the 1920s and early ’30s who befriended and hosted such artists and writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Dorothy Parker, Pablo Picasso, Fernand
- Murphy, Gerard (artist)
Pop art: Predecessors: …Pop art were Stuart Davis, Gerard Murphy, and Fernand Léger, all of whom depicted in their painting the precision, mass production, and commercial materials of the machine-industrial age. The immediate predecessors of the Pop artists were Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg, American artists who in the 1950s painted…
- Murphy, Isaac Burns (American jockey)
Isaac Burns Murphy was an American jockey who was the first to be elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York. Although Murphy’s career winning percentage is disputed, neither of the figures cited—racing records show 34.5 percent, while Murphy claimed 44
- Murphy, John B. (American surgeon)
John B. Murphy was an American surgeon who was notable for his advances in abdominal surgery. Murphy served as professor of surgery at Rush Medical College, Chicago (1905–08), and at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago (1901–05, 1908–16). He was a pioneer in recognizing the symptoms
- Murphy, John Benjamin (American surgeon)
John B. Murphy was an American surgeon who was notable for his advances in abdominal surgery. Murphy served as professor of surgery at Rush Medical College, Chicago (1905–08), and at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago (1901–05, 1908–16). He was a pioneer in recognizing the symptoms
- Murphy, Larry (Canadian hockey player)
Washington Capitals: …wing Mike Gartner and defensemen Larry Murphy and Rod Langway led the team to five consecutive second-place divisional finishes between 1983–84 and 1987–88. Washington won its first division title in 1988–89 and appeared in the conference finals in 1989–90, but the Capitals failed to advance any further in the postseason…
- Murphy, Michael (American actor)
Robert Altman: M*A*S*H and the 1970s: …repertory players—Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Michael Murphy, Gwen Welles, and Bert Remsen, among others—helped Altman take his exploration of free-form narrative to another level in Nashville (1975), a wildly inventive profile of some two dozen characters who congregate in the city of Nashville over the course of a weekend—some to…
- Murphy, Robert (United States diplomat)
North Africa campaigns: Planning a second front in Africa: Robert Murphy, the chief U.S. diplomatic representative in North Africa, prepared the way for the landings by discreetly eliciting support from French officers whom he felt were likely to sympathize with the project. He relied particularly on Gen. Charles Mast, commander of the troops in…
- Murphy, Ryan (American producer, director, and writer)
Ryan Murphy is a producer, director, and writer of television and film who has built a successful and prolific career by bringing the stories of marginalized characters to the mainstream and by exploring dark and controversial topics. He has been called the most powerful man in television and is
- Murphy, Ryan Patrick (American producer, director, and writer)
Ryan Murphy is a producer, director, and writer of television and film who has built a successful and prolific career by bringing the stories of marginalized characters to the mainstream and by exploring dark and controversial topics. He has been called the most powerful man in television and is
- Murphy, Sara (American expatriate)
Gerald Murphy and Sara Murphy: Sara Wiborg, from a well-to-do Cincinnati family, attended private schools in Europe and the United States and married Gerald on December 30, 1915. In 1921 they moved to Europe, taking a flat in Paris and three years later settling also into Villa America, their home…
- Murphy, Sara Sherman (American expatriate)
Gerald Murphy and Sara Murphy: Sara Wiborg, from a well-to-do Cincinnati family, attended private schools in Europe and the United States and married Gerald on December 30, 1915. In 1921 they moved to Europe, taking a flat in Paris and three years later settling also into Villa America, their home…
- Murphy, William Francis (United States jurist)
Frank Murphy was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1940 until his death. He was noted for his militant defense of individual liberties and civil rights and for his insistence on doing substantial justice irrespective of legal technicalities. Murphy studied at the
- Murphy, William P. (American physician)
William P. Murphy was an American physician who with George R. Minot in 1926 reported success in the treatment of pernicious anemia with a liver diet. The two men shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George H. Whipple, whose research they had built upon. Murphy received
- Murphy, WIlliam Parry (American physician)
William P. Murphy was an American physician who with George R. Minot in 1926 reported success in the treatment of pernicious anemia with a liver diet. The two men shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George H. Whipple, whose research they had built upon. Murphy received
- Murphy-O’Connor, Cormac (British religious leader)
Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was a British religious leader and former cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Three of Murphy-O’Connor’s uncles and two of his brothers were priests. He himself was ordained in 1956. After serving parishes in Portsmouth and Fareham, he became director of vocations for the
- Murphy/Jahn (American company)
Helmut Jahn: …2012 it became known as JAHN.
- Murphysboro (Illinois, United States)
Tri-State Tornado of 1925: …of Gorham, De Soto, and Murphysboro, among others. Murphysboro was the hardest-hit area in the tornado’s path, with 234 fatalities. After killing more than 600 people in Illinois, the tornado crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, where it demolished the towns of Griffin, Owensville, and Princeton and devastated about 85…
- Murphyville (Texas, United States)
Alpine, city, seat (1887) of Brewster county, extreme western Texas, U.S., in a high valley with an altitude of 4,481 feet (1,366 metres), flanked by the Davis Mountains (north) and the Glass Mountains (east), 190 miles (306 km) southeast of El Paso. Founded in 1882 with the arrival of the railroad
- Murrah al-Kubrā, Buḥayrah al- (lake, Egypt)
Al-Ismāʿīliyyah: …is the Suez Canal, including Great Bitter Lake (Buḥayra al-Murrah al-Kubrā), a shallow, marshy salt lake forming part of the Suez Canal. The governorate consists mainly of desert, except in the northern part.
- Murrah, Al-Buḥayrah al- (lakes, Egypt)
Suez Canal: …Timsah (Buḥayrat al-Timsāḥ), and the Bitter Lakes—Great Bitter Lake (Al-Buḥayrah al-Murrah al-Kubrā) and Little Bitter Lake (Al-Buḥayrah al-Murrah al-Ṣughrā). The Suez Canal is an open cut, without locks, and, though extensive straight lengths occur, there are eight major bends. To the west of the canal is the low-lying delta of…
- Murray (Utah, United States)
Murray, city, Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., on the Jordan River, near the Wasatch Range. Founded by Mormons in 1847, it was named for Eli H. Murray, governor of Utah Territory from 1880 to 1886. An extension of the Union Pacific Railroad (1870) through the site aided the development
- Murray Basin (basin, Australia)
Australia: The Interior Lowlands: …the Eyre Basin, and the Murray Basin. The Carpentaria and Eyre basins are separated by such minute residual relief elements as Mount Brown and Mount Fort Bowen in northwestern Queensland. The Wilcannia threshold divides the Eyre and Murray basins, and the latter is separated from the Otway Basin and the…
- Murray Bridge (South Australia, Australia)
Murray Bridge, city, southeastern South Australia, on the Murray River, 52 miles (84 km) by road southeast of Adelaide. Originally a stop for cattle drovers, the town was organized in 1860 as the Hundred of Mobilong and grew as a river port. A bridge spanned the Murray in 1879, and the town of
- Murray Fracture Zone (submarine fracture zone, Pacific Ocean)
Murray Fracture Zone, submarine fracture zone in the Earth’s surface, a long mountainous lineation on the North Pacific seafloor. The zone trends east-northeast for 1,900 miles (3,000 km) from latitude 28° N, longitude 155° W (north of the Hawaiian Islands) to the base of the continental slope off
- Murray Grey (breed of cattle)
Murray Grey, breed of Australian beef cattle first bred in 1905 in the Murray River valley on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. Its characteristic colour is grey, and the breed is known for its calving and milking ability, its gentle temperament, and its rapid natural growth rate.
- Murray Hill Agreement (labor)
organized labour: Challenges to pure-and-simple unionism: …find common ground in the Murray Hill agreement (1900) between the International Association of Machinists and the National Metal Trades Association failed within a year, the die was cast: a quarter-century of bitter industrial warfare ensued. Labour’s fortunes varied at different times and places, but the end result was unquestionably…
- Murray Plain (plain, South Australia, Australia)
South Australia: Relief: The sixth region is the Murray Plain and the Southeast Plain, developed on lime-rich deposits from early Cenozoic time (roughly 50 million years ago). The Murray Plain is characterized by west-east-trending stabilized sand dunes. In the wetter Southeast Plain there are parallel limestone ridges with flats, formerly inundated in winter…
- Murray River (river, Australia)
Murray River, principal river of Australia and main stream of the Murray-Darling Basin. It flows some 1,570 miles (2,530 km) across southeastern Australia from the Snowy Mountains to the Indian Ocean. The main towns in the Murray River valley are Albury, Wodonga, Echuca, Swan Hill, Mildura,
- Murray River pine (plant)
cypress pine: Major species: …of the genus are the Murray River pine, or white cypress pine (Callitris columellaris), found throughout Australia; the black cypress pine (C. endlicheri) of eastern Australia, locally also called black pine, red pine, and scrub pine; the Port Macquarie pine, or stringybark (C. macleayana), of southeastern Australia; and the common…
- Murray State University (university, Murray, Kentucky, United States)
Murray State University, public, coeducational institution of higher education in Murray, Kentucky, U.S. It awards bachelor’s, master’s, and specialist degrees in six academic colleges: business and public affairs, education, fine arts and communication, humanistic studies, industry and technology,
- Murray v. Curlett (law case)
School District of Abington Township v. Schempp: Background: …had arisen in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray v. Curlett, in which the lower court had found that Bible reading in public schools is constitutional. Oral arguments were heard on February 27–28, 1963.
- Murray v. Pearson (law case)
Thurgood Marshall: …his first legal victories was Murray v. Pearson (1935), a suit accusing the University of Maryland of violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws by denying an African American applicant admission to its law school solely on the basis of race. In 1936 Marshall became a…
- Murray Valley (region, Australia)
Australia: Climate: …inches (500 mm), while the Murray plains, in the rain shadows of the range, receive 15 inches (380 mm) or less rainfall annually.
- Murray’s Lessee v. Hoboken Land and Improvement Company (law case)
Benjamin R. Curtis: …and foreign commerce, and in Murray’s Lessee v. Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which confirmed the government’s power to assess and collect sums due to it by its agents without resort to law. His most famous, and last, opinion was his dissent in the Dred Scott case, in which his…
- Murray, Albert (American author and critic)
Albert Murray was an African American essayist, critic, and novelist whose writings assert the vitality and the powerful influence of black people in forming American traditions. Murray attended Tuskegee Institute (B.S., 1939; later Tuskegee University) and New York University (M.A., 1948); he also
- Murray, Albert Lee (American author and critic)
Albert Murray was an African American essayist, critic, and novelist whose writings assert the vitality and the powerful influence of black people in forming American traditions. Murray attended Tuskegee Institute (B.S., 1939; later Tuskegee University) and New York University (M.A., 1948); he also
- Murray, Andrew Barron (Scottish tennis player)
Andy Murray is a Scottish tennis player who was one of the sport’s premier players during the 2010s, winning three Grand Slam titles and two men’s singles Olympic gold medals. Though clearly blessed with an unusual talent from an early age—with speed, power, and a light touch—Murray often battled
- Murray, Andy (Scottish tennis player)
Andy Murray is a Scottish tennis player who was one of the sport’s premier players during the 2010s, winning three Grand Slam titles and two men’s singles Olympic gold medals. Though clearly blessed with an unusual talent from an early age—with speed, power, and a light touch—Murray often battled
- Murray, Anna (American abolitionist)
Anna Murray Douglass was an abolitionist, an agent on the Underground Railroad, and a mother of five who lived a life of service to her community. In 1838, she married Frederick Douglass, and throughout her life she demonstrated a fierce, steadfast, and unassuming commitment to her family and home
- Murray, Anna Pauline (American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer)
Pauli Murray was a key figure who helped define the intellectual foundations of the 20th-century civil rights and women’s rights movements. The legal analysis and research by the activist, lawyer, nonbinary Black feminist, poet, and Episcopalian priest formed the basis of the legal argument against
- Murray, Anne (Canadian singer)
Anne Murray is a widely honoured Canadian country singer known for such popular songs as “Snowbird,” “A Little Good News,” and covers of songs by artists such as the Beatles and Kenny Loggins. She was the first female Canadian solo artist to reach number one on music charts in the United States and
- Murray, Arthur (American dancing instructor)
Arthur Murray was an American ballroom-dancing instructor and entrepreneur who established a successful mail-order dance-instruction business and, by 1965, more than 350 franchised dance studios, including nearly 50 in foreign countries. The son of an Austrian-born immigrant baker in Manhattan’s
- Murray, Balvany, and Gask, John Murray, Lord (Scottish Royalist)
John Murray, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Atholl was a leading Scottish Royalist and defender of the Stuarts from the time of the English Civil Wars (1642–51) until after the accession of William and Mary (1689). The son of the 1st earl of Atholl in the Murray line, Atholl was the chief supporter
- Murray, Bill (American comedian and actor)
Bill Murray is an American comedian and actor best known for his trademark deadpan humor on television’s Saturday Night Live and for his film roles. Murray, one of eight children, began his acting career on the National Lampoon Radio Hour (1975) alongside fellow comedians John Belushi and Dan
- Murray, Bruce (American scientist)
Mars: Polar regions: American scientists Robert Leighton and Bruce Murray published the results of a numerical model of the thermal environment on Mars that raised considerable doubt about the water-ice hypothesis. Their calculations indicated that, under Martian conditions, atmospheric carbon dioxide would freeze at the poles, and the growth and shrinkage of their…
- Murray, Conrad (Grenadian physician)
Michael Jackson: Child molestation accusations, financial difficulties, and death: In November 2011 Jackson’s personal physician was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
- Murray, Diane Lain Johnson (American author and academic)
Diane Johnson is an American writer and academic who first garnered attention for worldly and satiric novels set in California that portrayed contemporary women in crisis. She later wrote a series of books about Americans living abroad. Johnson was educated at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri;
- Murray, Donald (British scientist)
telegraph: Printing telegraphs: In 1903 the British inventor Donald Murray, following the ideas of Baudot, devised a time-division multiplex system for the British Post Office. The transmitter used a typewriter keyboard that punched tape, and the receiver printed text. He modified the Baudot Code by assigning code combinations with the fewest punched holes…
- Murray, Elizabeth (American painter)
Elizabeth Murray was an American painter whose lively imagery and reconsideration of the rectangle as the traditional format for painting was part of a reinvigoration of that medium in the 1970s and ’80s. She is sometimes described as a Neo-Expressionist. The American art critic Roberta Smith
- Murray, George (British scientist)
telegraph: Preelectric telegraph systems: …was developed in 1795 by George Murray in England. In Murray’s device, characters were sent by opening and closing various combinations of six shutters. This system rapidly caught on in England and in the United States, where a number of sites bearing the name Telegraph Hill or Signal Hill can…
- Murray, George Gilbert Aimé (British scholar)
Gilbert Murray was a British classical scholar whose translations of the masters of ancient Greek drama—Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes—brought their works to renewed popularity on the contemporary stage. Murray became professor of Greek at Glasgow University at age 23 and in 1908
- Murray, George Redmayne (British physician)
George Redmayne Murray was an English physician who pioneered in the treatment of endocrine disorders. He was one of the first to use extractions of animal thyroid to relieve myxedema (severe hypothyroidism) in humans. Murray, the son of a prominent physician, William Murray, received clinical
- Murray, Gilbert (British scholar)
Gilbert Murray was a British classical scholar whose translations of the masters of ancient Greek drama—Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes—brought their works to renewed popularity on the contemporary stage. Murray became professor of Greek at Glasgow University at age 23 and in 1908
- Murray, Gilbert W. (English anthropologist)
tragedy: Later Greek drama: A 20th-century British Classical scholar, Gilbert Murray, used the phrase “the failure of nerve” to describe the late Greek world. It may, indeed, provide a clue to what happened. On the other hand, according to the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), a quite different…
- Murray, Grace Brewster (United States naval officer and mathematician)
Grace Hopper was an American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL (common-business-oriented language). After graduating from Vassar
- Murray, Henry (American psychologist)
Henry Murray was an American psychologist who developed a theory of human personality based on an individual’s inborn needs and his relationship with the physical and social environment. Murray, who majored in history at Harvard University, earned an M.D. in 1919 from Columbia University’s College
- Murray, Henry Alexander (American psychologist)
Henry Murray was an American psychologist who developed a theory of human personality based on an individual’s inborn needs and his relationship with the physical and social environment. Murray, who majored in history at Harvard University, earned an M.D. in 1919 from Columbia University’s College
- Murray, James (American actor)
The Crowd: …on Johnny Sims (played by James Murray), an idealistic young man who moves with his new wife, Mary (Eleanor Boardman), to a major city, where he hopes to become a major success. Instead, the couple find themselves unable to cope with the harsh realities of life in the modern urban…
- Murray, James (British soldier and official)
James Murray was a British soldier who was military and civilian governor of Quebec in 1760–68. Murray joined the British army in 1739/40 and served in the West Indies and Europe. Sent to North America in 1757 as a lieutenant colonel during the Seven Years’ War, he commanded a brigade in 1758
- Murray, John (Scottish Royalist)
John Murray, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Atholl was a leading Scottish Royalist and defender of the Stuarts from the time of the English Civil Wars (1642–51) until after the accession of William and Mary (1689). The son of the 1st earl of Atholl in the Murray line, Atholl was the chief supporter
- Murray, John (Scottish noble)
John Murray, 2nd marquess and 1st duke of Atholl was a leading Scottish supporter of William and Mary and of the Hanoverian succession. Son of the 1st marquess of Atholl, he favored the accession of William and Mary in 1689 but was unable, during his father’s absence, to prevent the majority of his
- Murray, John (British naval officer)
Melbourne: Early settlement: …Europeans in 1802, when Lieutenant John Murray and Captain Matthew Flinders visited the bay within a few months of each other. This area was then part of the colony of New South Wales, and the colony’s governor, Philip Gidley King, instructed the surveyor-general, Charles Grimes, to examine the shores of…
- Murray, John (British publisher)
Benjamin Disraeli: Early life: …he had persuaded the publisher John Murray, his father’s friend, to launch a daily newspaper, the Representative. It was a complete failure. Disraeli, unable to pay his promised share of the capital, quarreled with Murray and others. Moreover, in his novel Vivian Grey (1826–27), published anonymously, he lampooned Murray while…
- Murray, John (English minister and theologian)
John Murray was an English Protestant minister and theologian who founded the first Universalist congregation in the United States. At first a Methodist, Murray sought to refute the Welsh minister James Relly’s unorthodox teaching that Jesus Christ’s suffering and crucifixion brought salvation for
- Murray, John (British royal governor of Virginia)
John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore was the British royal governor of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution. A descendant of the Scottish house of Stuart, he was the eldest son of William Murray, the 3rd earl, whom he succeeded in 1756. He sat in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1770 and then
- Murray, John Courtney (American theologian)
Murray, John Courtney was a Jesuit (Society of Jesus) theologian known for his influential thought on church-state relations. Murray was educated at a Jesuit high school in Manhattan and entered their novitiate in 1920. After study at Boston College, where he took his M.A., he attended Woodstock
- Murray, Joseph E. (American physiologist)
Joseph E. Murray was an American surgeon who in 1990 was co-winner (with E. Donnall Thomas) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in lifesaving organ- and tissue-transplant techniques. Murray received a bachelor of arts degree (1940) from Holy Cross College, Worcester,
- Murray, Joseph Edward (American physiologist)
Joseph E. Murray was an American surgeon who in 1990 was co-winner (with E. Donnall Thomas) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in lifesaving organ- and tissue-transplant techniques. Murray received a bachelor of arts degree (1940) from Holy Cross College, Worcester,
- Murray, Judith Sargent Stevens (American writer)
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray was an American writer during the early republic, remembered largely for her essays and journalistic comment on contemporary public issues, especially women’s rights. Judith Sargent was the daughter of a wealthy shipowner and merchant and received an unusually good
- Murray, Les (Australian author)
Les Murray was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney and the Bush” captured Australia’s psychic and rural landscape as well as its mythic elements. Murray grew up on a dairy farm and graduated from the University of Sydney (B.A.,
- Murray, Leslie Allan (Australian author)
Les Murray was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney and the Bush” captured Australia’s psychic and rural landscape as well as its mythic elements. Murray grew up on a dairy farm and graduated from the University of Sydney (B.A.,
- Murray, Lindley (American grammarian)
English language: Age of Johnson: …view was well maintained by Lindley Murray, a native of Pennsylvania who settled in England in the very year (1784) of Johnson’s death. Murray’s English Grammar appeared in 1795, became immensely popular, and went into numerous editions. It was followed by an English Reader (1799) and an English Spelling Book…
- Murray, Lord George (Scottish general)
Lord George Murray was a Scottish Jacobite, one of the ablest of the generals who fought for Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, the Stuart claimant to the English throne, in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46. Murray joined the English army in 1711 but aided the Jacobites in their unsuccessful
- Murray, Margaret (British Egyptologist)
coven: …coven was the English Egyptologist Margaret Murray in her work The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921). According to her a coven consists of 12 witches and a devil as leader. The number is generally taken as a parody of Christ and his 12 disciples. (An alternate theory, stressing the…
- Murray, Matthew (English engineer)
Matthew Murray was an English engineer. With little formal education, Murray went to work for a flax spinner in Leeds, where he introduced innovations in flax-spinning machinery. He established his own factory and was soon patenting various improvements to the steam engine. The locomotives he built
- Murray, Morna Anne (Canadian singer)
Anne Murray is a widely honoured Canadian country singer known for such popular songs as “Snowbird,” “A Little Good News,” and covers of songs by artists such as the Beatles and Kenny Loggins. She was the first female Canadian solo artist to reach number one on music charts in the United States and
- Murray, Patty (United States senator)
Patty Murray is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and began representing Washington the following year. Murray was the first female senator from the state, and she later became the first woman to serve as president pro tempore of the Senate (2023– ).
- Murray, Pauli (American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer)
Pauli Murray was a key figure who helped define the intellectual foundations of the 20th-century civil rights and women’s rights movements. The legal analysis and research by the activist, lawyer, nonbinary Black feminist, poet, and Episcopalian priest formed the basis of the legal argument against
- Murray, Philip (American labor leader)
Philip Murray was an American labour leader who organized the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) from 1936 and played a prominent part in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) through its early years, serving as its president from 1940 until his death. Emigrating to the United States
- Murray, Robert (Canadian sculptor)
stabile: The Canadian sculptor Robert Murray (1936– ) is notable among other artists working in the monumental stabile form; his lofty curved and folded aluminum sheets, while usually more geometric and less “penetrable” than the stabiles of Calder, nonetheless share the latter’s paradoxical blend of lightness and substantiality, motion…