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MURDOCH, JAMES (1856-1921), Orientalist, was born on 27 September 1856 at Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, son of William Murdoch, labourer, and his wife Helen, née McDonald. After attending the local parochial school and the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, he topped the entrance examination at the University of Aberdeen in 1875 and graduated M.A. with first-class honours in classics in 1879. The Fullarton travelling scholarship then took him to Worcester College, Oxford; but on 26 June 1880, three months after passing Responsions, he married Lucy Parkes (daughter of a Congregational minister at Lyme Regis) and soon afterwards returned to Aberdeen as assistant to the professor of Greek.

Author: D. C. S. Sissons

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