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{{Short description|Anglo-Australian scholar (1866–1957)}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox academic | name = Gilbert Murray | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OM|FBA|size=100%}} | image = Gilbert Murray.jpg | caption = | birth_name = George Gilbert Aimé Murray | birth_date = {{birth-date|2 January 1866}} | birth_place = [[Sydney]], [[Colony of New South Wales|New South Wales]] | death_date = {{death date and age|20 May 1957|2 January 1866|df=y}} | death_place = Oxford, England | burial_place = [[Poets' Corner]], Westminster Abbey | citizenship = | nationality = British | discipline = [[Ancient Greece]] | work_institutions = | education = [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood]], England | alma_mater = [[St John's College, Oxford]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | religion = | footnotes = | signature = | module = {{infobox person | embed = yes | father = [[Terence Aubrey Murray]] | mother = Agnes Ann Edwards | spouse = | relatives = [[Polly Toynbee]] (great granddaughter) }} }} '''George Gilbert Aimé Murray''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OM|FBA}} (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British<ref>Australian by birth, he returned to Australia in the 1890s for a visit. It has been lamented that "perhaps the most famous Australian of his time, [he] expressed no interest whatever in Australia".{{cite magazine|author=Geoffrey Partington|title=Sir Walter Crocker at One Hundred|magazine=[[National Observer (Australia)|National Observer]]|location=Melbourne|issn=1442-5548|number=54|date=Spring 2002|pages=45–58|url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.758162060462538|url-access=registration|via=[[Informit (database)|Informit]]}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120704091326/http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Dissenters/crocker.htm also here] at [[Adelaide Institute]]</ref> classical scholar and [[public intellectual]], with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of [[Ancient Greece]], perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s play ''[[Major Barbara]]'', and also appears as the chorus figure in [[Tony Harrison]]'s play ''[[Fram (play)|Fram]]''. He served as President of the Ethical Union (now [[Humanists UK]]) from 1929 to 1930 and was a delegate at the inaugural [[World Humanist Congress]] in 1952 which established [[Humanists International]]. He was a leader of the [[League of Nations Society]] and the [[League of Nations Union]], which promoted the [[United Kingdom and the League of Nations|League of Nations in Britain]]. Murray died in Oxford in 1957, aged 91. His ashes were interred in [[Poets' Corner]], Westminster Abbey.<ref>[https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/gilbert-murray "Gilbert Murray"], [[Westminster Abbey]]</ref>
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