Editing H. J. R. Murray (section)

==Early life and education==
Murray, the eldest of eleven children, was born near Peckham Rye in [[Peckham]], [[London]]. The son of [[James Murray (lexicographer)|Sir James Murray]], the first editor of the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', he attended school at [[Mill Hill]] and, in his spare time, helped his father produce the first edition of the OED. By the time Harold had finished school and was preparing to leave for university, he had produced over 27,000 quotations that later appeared in the OED.

He won a place at [[Balliol College, Oxford]] where in 1890 he graduated with a first class degree in mathematics.<ref name="Brewer" /> He became an assistant master at [[Queen's College, Taunton]] where he learned to play chess. Later he was assistant master at [[Carlisle Grammar School]], and in 1896 became headmaster of [[Ormskirk Grammar School]] in Lancashire. On 4 January 1897, he married Kate Maitland Crosthwaite. In 1901, he was appointed a school inspector, and in 1928 he became a member of the [[Board of Education (United Kingdom)|Board of Education]].

Murray was a champion of the [[left-handed]], defending children against the attempts of schools to make them conform by using their right hands.<ref name="Brewer">{{cite web|url=http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/262/345/#Appendix|title=Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray (1909-98)|last=Brewer|first=Charlotte|work=Examining the OED|publisher=Charlotte Brewer|access-date=30 May 2011|location=Hertford College, Oxford|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122110042/http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/262/345/#Appendix|archive-date=22 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Murray | first = WGR | year = 1943 | title = Murray the dictionary maker: a brief account of Sir James A. H. Murray... the chief editor of The Oxford (or new) English dictionary | place = Wynberg, Cape [SA] | publisher = Rustica Press}}.</ref>