Author talk:Hugh Murray

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Name: Hugh Murray
Birth - Death: 1779-1846
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• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (Alli)
• Bibliotheca Canadensis. Or, A manual of Canadian literature. By Henry J. Morgan. Ottawa: G.E. Desbarats, 1867. (BbtC)
• A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland. Comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives; and a chronological register of their publications. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Hanover Square, 1816. (BiDLA)
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• Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. An international who's who in Islamic studies from its beginnings down to the twentieth century. Three volumes. By Wolfgang Behn. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2004-2006. (CnBCII)
• A Dictionary of Biography, Past and Present. Containing the chief events in the lives of eminent persons of all ages and nations. Edited by Benjamin Vincent. London: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1877. (DcBiPP)
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• The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1, From the beginnings to 1900. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Contains abstracts of the biographies found in The Dictionary of National Biography (21 volumes, New York: Macmillan Co.; London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908). (DcNaB)
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Allibone's Critical vol. 2, p.1391 http://www.archive.org/stream/acriticaldictio00unkngoog#page/n250/mode/1up

Murray,Hagh,1779-l640.a native of North Berwick, East Lothian, a clerk in the Excise Office in Edinburgh. was for some time editor of the Scots Magazine. and a contributor to the Edinburgh Gazetteer and The Trans. Soc. Edin. 1. The Swiss Emigranle; a Tale, 12mo. Anon. Commended by The Brit. Crit., Lod. Month. Rer., Crit. Rot., and Anti-Jac. Rev. 2. Inquiries on Nations and Society, 1808-10 8vo. 3. Adventure of British Seamen in the Southern Ocean. 18mo. 4. Catechism of Geo- raphy; 3d ed., 18mo. Commended by the Edin. Even- ing Poet, &c. b. Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, 1817, 2 Vols. 6to: see Leyden, John. M.D., No. 1 : 3d ed.. assisted by Prof. Robert Jameson and James Wilson, (Edin. Cab. Lib..iii.,) 1842, fp. 8vo; 4th ed., with an Account of Recent Exploring Expeditions. by the Rev. John H. Wilson, 1854, p. 8vo. Commended in Stevenson's Voyages and Travels, 592; Dibdin's Lib. Comp.,379; Lon. Quar. Rev., 299. 199. 6. Historical Ac- count of Discoveries and Travels in Asia, 1820, 2 Vols. 8vo. Commended by Dibdin's Lib. Comp., 379; Lod. Quar. Rev., xiiv. 311; Lon. Month. Rev., iciv. 242, &c.: see Crawfurd, John. No. 1. 7. Historical Account od Discoveries and Travels in North America. 1829. 2 Vols 8vo; new ed., assisted by James Wilson, R. K. Greville, and Prof. Traill, (Edin. Cab. Lib., xxv., xxvi., xxxii.,) 1843, 3 vols. fp. 8vo. Commended by Lon. Athen., Edin. Conrant, and Colonial Gazette.and ten other periodicals. 6. Encyelopædia of Geo- graphy, 1834, 8vo, £3; new ed., brought down to 1840. 8vo, 1840, £3; Supp., 1843. 1s. With 82 Maps, and upwards of 1000 Woodcut's. Among the contributors are Sir W. J. Hooker, (Zoology, &c.:) W. W. Swainson. (Astronomy &c.;) Prof Wm. Wallace, (Oeoloiry. 4c.) Amer. ed., re- vised by Thomas Q. Bradford, Phila., 1843, 3 vols. 8vo, Sale in America to 1853. about 17,000 sets, or 51,000 vols,

"A stupendeous monument of reading, industry, and research. It seems like the employment of a lifetime, the united labours of a society of contributors, rather than the production of a single pen."—Lon. Gent Mag.., 1846, Pt. 1, 647.

" The most perfect book on the subject."—Atlas

See also South. Lit Mesa., ii. 307, 363.

9. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India; 3d ed., assisted by James Wilson, It. K. Greville, Robert Jameson, Sir W. Ainslie. Prof. Wm. Wallace, and Capt. C. Dalrymple, (Edin. Cab. Lib., vi, vii, viii.;) 4th ed., 1849, 12mo. Continued to 1854, 1854, p. 8vo. We have before us eleven commendations of his work. 11). Historical and Descriptive Account of China. 1838. 3 vols. fp. 8vo; 2d ed., assisted by John Crawford, F. Gordon, Capt. T. Lynn. Prof. Wm. Wallace, and Prof. Q. Burnett. (Edin. Cab, Lib., cviii., xix., xi.) Commended by The Edin. Quar. Rev., Lon. Month. Rev.. Brit. Critic. Nautical Mag., Asiatic Jour., and The Atlas. 11. The United States of America, 1844, 3 vols. p. 8vo, (Edin. Cab. Lib., xxxv, xxxvi., xxxvii. :) Amer. ed., with Addits. and Corrections by Henry C. Watson, and Illustrated from Original De- signs by W. Croome, Bost., 8vo. 12. Marco Polo's Travels, with Notes, 1830, p. 8ro, (Edin. Cab. Lib., xxiviii.;) new ed., 1844. p. 8vo: see Marsden, William. D.C.L., No. 5. 13. A Hist, of British India, 1857. See N. Amer. Rev., April, 1858. 487.

Mr. Murray and Prof. Robt. Jameson were the assistants of Sir John Leslie in the Narrative of Discovery and Ad- venture in the Polar Bers and Regions. (Edin. Cab. Lib., i..) 1829, sm 8vo; 1856, p. Bvo: see Leslie, Sir