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'''John Murray'''
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| first_name = John
| name = Murray
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| honorific_suffix = AM, MD
| image = File:Murray,_John.jpg
| birth_date = 1808| death_date = 1892| address = Wickham, Hunt.50 Albemarle St [1862]<br />and Newstead Wimbledon park [1867]| occupation = medicalbusiness| elected_ESL = 1861.03.19| elected_ASL = 1865.05.16
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL ordinary fellowESL Ordinary Fellow| left = 1870 retired| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies =
}}
=== House Notes ===
circle by name in A6:2 which generally indicates resignationpublisher
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Apr. 1871 [death John Murray III (1808–1892) continued the business and published Charles Eastlake's first English translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours (1840), David Livingstone's Missionary Travels (1857), and Charles Darwin's Origin of] On the 16th instSpecies (1859).Murray III contracted with Herman Melville to publish Melville's first two books, at Forest-hillTypee (1846) and Omoo (1847) in England; both books were presented as nonfiction travel narratives in Murray's Home and Colonial Library series, Thomas Douglas, only son alongside such works as the 1845 second edition of Darwin's journals from his travels on the HMS Beagle.[4] John MurrayIII also started the Murray Handbooks in 1836, Ma series of travel guides from which modern-day guides are directly descended.DThe rights to these guides were sold around 1900 and subsequently acquired in 1915 by the Blue Guides., Wickham, Hants [Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette]<br />Member of the Athenaeum Club (there are three John Murrays)
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
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