Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry
Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry,
1837–1915, English lexicographer. In 1879 he assumed the editorship of the New English Dictionary (the Oxford English Dictionary), which was his life's work (see dictionarydictionary,published list, in alphabetical order, of the words of a language. In monolingual dictionaries the words are explained and defined in the same language; in bilingual dictionaries they are translated into another language.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Murray was a guiding force in this compilation, a triumph of modern scholarship, and its general plan and much of the work on details are to be credited to him.
Bibliography
See studies by K. M. E. Murray (1977) and S. Winchester (2003).