- Born
- February 7, 1837
- Died
- July 26, 1915 (aged 78)
- Known as
- lexicographer, linguist, writer, philologist, scholar of English
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
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