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Walter J. C. Murray
Born1900
Died1985
OccupationWriter, school-teacher
NationalityEnglish
SubjectNature writing

Walter John Campbell Murray was born in Seaford, East Sussex 20 August 1900. During the First World War he spent time at sea as a radio officer in the Mercantile Marine and later served in the R.A.F. He was a journalist in London for a short time before moving to Horam in Sussex to spend a year gathering and marketing wild herbs. Murray later became a schoolmaster, and in 1926 founded his own independent co-educational school of which he remained headmaster for forty years. Throughout his life he was a keen student of natural history, and this took him to many remote corners and islands of the United Kingdom. Murray was well known as a nature photographer, as well as a radio and television broadcaster. He died in January 1985.

Bibliography

  • Nature's Undiscovered Kingdom, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1946
  • Copsford, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948; Tartarus Press 2019 ISBN 9781912586110, and Little Toller Books 2019. ISBN 9781908213709
  • A Sanctuary Planted, Phoenix House Ltd, 1953
  • Romney Marsh, Robert Hale, 1953

with L. Hugh Newman:

  • Stand and Stare, Staples Press, 1950
  • Nature's Way: Questions and Answers on Animal Behaviour, Country Life, 1952
  • Wander and Watch, Staples Press, 1954

References

  1. ^ Wareham, Tom (2017). The Green Man of Horam, The Life and Work of Walter J. C. Murray. CreateSpace. ISBN 9781541031739.
  2. Copsford by Walter J.C. Murray, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948
  3. From Heathfield to East Hoathly, B.K. Russell, Tartarus Press, 2004, pps110-112
  4. Dustjacket biography Romney Marsh by Walter J.C. Murray, Robert Hale, 1982 (third edition)

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