James Murray (lexicographer)
…Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (; 7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death. James Murray was born in the village of Denholm near Hawick in the Scottish Borders, the eldest son of a draper, Thomas…