Sir James Murray
1837 – 1915
Scottish

Lexicographer. He created the Oxford Dictionary, a treasure for lovers of the English language.

Contemporaries
1795–1852Fanny Wright
1913–2007Thomas Torrance
1850–1894Robert Louis Stevenson
1812–1904Samuel Smiles
1801–1877Robert Dale Owen
1883–1973A. S. Neill
fl. c. 1806–c. 1873John Stuart Mill
1913–1994Donald MacKinnon
1813–1873David Livingstone
1870–1950Sir Harry Lauder
1859–1932Kenneth Grahame
1885–1978Duncan Grant
1854–1941Sir James Frazer
1859–1930Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1868–1952George Norman Douglas
1780–1847Thomas Chalmers
1795–1881Thomas Carlyle
1792–1863Sir Colin Campbell
1875–1940John Buchan
1778–1868Henry Brougham
1795–1860James Braid
1880–1971John Boyd Orr
1847–1922Alexander Graham Bell
1819–1905Alexander Melville Bell
1888–1946John Baird
1818–1903Alexander Bain
1874–1960Katherine Atholl