Athol Murray (historian)
Athol Laverick Murray (1930-2018), historian and archivist.
He was the son of George Murray, a bank manager, and Margery Laverick.
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]
Julian Goodare wrote that Athol Murray had told the story John Acheson, master of the mint, well.[3]
Publications[]
- The Royal Grammar School Lancaster: A History (W. Heffer, 1951).
- Sebright school, Wolverley: A History (W. Heffer, 1953).
- 'Pursemaster's Accounts', Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, X (Edinburgh, 1965).
- 'Financing the Royal Household: James V and his Comptrollers', Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983), pp. 42-59.
- 'The monuments of a family: A collection of jewels associated with Elizabeth of Bohemia', PSAS, 131 (2002), pp. 327-348
References[]
- ^ 'Obituary: Dr Athol Murray, historian, scholar and former Keeper of the Records of Scotland', The Scotsman, 20 August 2018
- ^ Alan Borthwick, 'Athol Murray, 8 November 1930–24 August 2018: An Appreciation', SHR, 98:1 (April, 2019), pp. 128-30
- ^ Julian Goodare, State and Society in Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 1999), pp. 126-7.
Categories:
- 1930 births
- 2018 deaths
- 20th-century Scottish historians