Athol_Murray_(historian)

Athol Murray (historian)

Athol Murray (historian)

Scottish historian and archivist

Athol Laverick Murray (1930–2018) was a historian and archivist.

He was the son of George Murray, a bank manager, and Margery Laverick.[1]

He studied at Cambridge and gained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1961 on the records of the Scottish exchequer. He was briefly a teacher at the Sebright School in Worcestershire. He joined the Scottish Record Office, now National Records of Scotland, as an Assistant Keeper, in 1953. He became Keeper of Records in 1985.[1][2]

The historian Julian Goodare noted that Athol Murray had carefully explained the story of John Acheson, a Scottish goldsmith and mining entrepreneur.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    'Obituary: Dr Athol Murray, historian, scholar and former Keeper of the Records of Scotland', The Scotsman, 20 August 2018
  2. [2]
    Alan Borthwick, 'Athol Murray, 8 November 1930–24 August 2018: An Appreciation', SHR, 98:1 (April, 2019), pp. 128-30
  3. [3]
    Julian Goodare, State and Society in Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 1999), pp. 126-7 & fn. 86, citing Murray, 'Notes on the Treasury Administration', Treasurer's Accounts, vol. 12, pp. xxx-xxxi.
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