Editing Gilbert Murray (section)

=== Liberal Party politics ===
He was a lifelong supporter of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]], lining up on the [[Irish Home Rule]]<ref>{{harvnb|Wilson|1987|p=20}}: Murray founded an Oxford Home Rule League in 1886</ref> and non-imperialist sides of the splits in the party of the late nineteenth century. He supported [[Temperance movement|temperance]],{{sfn|Wilson|1987|p=21}} and married into a prominent Liberal, aristocratic and temperance family, the Carlisles. He made a number of moves that might have taken him into parliamentary politics, initially by tentative thoughts about standing in elections during the 1890s. In 1901-2 he was in close contact with the [[Independent Labour Party]].{{sfn|Wilson|1987|p=75}} But the overall effect of the [[Second Boer War]] was to drive him back into the academic career he had put on hold in 1898, resigning his Glasgow chair (effective from April 1899).

He stood five times unsuccessfully for the [[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|University of Oxford constituency]] between 1919 and 1929. He continued support for the [[H. H. Asquith|Asquith]] faction of Liberals, after the party was split again by [[David Lloyd George|Lloyd George]].<ref>{{harvnb|Wilson|1987|p=467}} for details and his academic elections against Lloyd George and Bonar Law, which were equally unsuccessful.</ref><ref>In 1921 Murray was trying a scheme on Asquith to promote a new progressive grouping under [[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon|Edward Grey]] {{harv|West|1984|p=184}}; but this proved impractical king making.</ref><ref>[[Noel Annan]], in ''Our Age: The Generation that made Post-War Britain'' (1990) provides (p. 236) a list of Liberal Party intellectuals of the 1920s capable of attracting the younger generation; Murray is listed there with [[Maynard Keynes]], [[Hubert Henderson]], [[Walter Layton]], [[Ramsay Muir]], [[Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe|Ernest Simon]], [[Roy Harrod]]. Another list including Murray (p. 32) is with [[J. A. Hobson]], [[L. T. Hobhouse]], [[J. L. Hammond]] and his wife [[Barbara Hammond]] (both close friends of Murray), [[Graham Wallas]], [[H. W. Nevinson]] and [[H. W. Massingham]], as 'the newly educated classes of the left' and 'reformers'.</ref> During the 1930s the Liberals as a party were crushed electorally, but [[Liberalism in the United Kingdom|Liberal thinkers]] continued to write; Murray was one of the signatory ''Next Five Years Group'' formed around [[Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood|Clifford Allen]].<ref>"... after Lloyd George had become the Independent Liberal in 1931, many remaining Liberals participated in the Next Five Years group, who proposed an aggressive industrial policy and management of banking and finance similar to the [[Liberal Yellow Book|Yellow Book]]. It is true that the group called themselves non-partisan, and in fact one of the core members was [[Harold Macmillan]]. However, as Freeden indicates, the Liberal tendency of the group was obvious as a whole. [[Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther|Geoffrey Crowther]] and [[Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter|Salter]], both Liberals, were responsible for the first section of the book dealing with domestic affairs. The signatories included Layton, Rowntree, Cadbury, [[Isaac Foot]], [[H. A. L. Fisher]], Gilbert Murray, J. L. Hammond, and Hobson, other than several Liberal MPs." From [http://www.edu.gunma-u.ac.jp/~kiyo/2005/human/106.pdf paper by Tomoari Matsunaga, PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221161300/http://www.edu.gunma-u.ac.jp/~kiyo/2005/human/106.pdf |date=21 February 2007 }}.</ref>