Augustus Taber Murray

Augustus Taber Murray (1866–1940) was an American classical philologist and translator and a Quaker minister. He was Professor of Greek at Stanford University for forty years.

Life Augustus Taber Murray was born in Manhattan on October 29, 1866. He graduated A.B. from Haverford College in 1885 and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (with a dissertation on Aristophanes) in 1890, before undertaking further studies at Leipzig and Berlin.

Murray died at Palo Alto, California on March 8, 1940. An able athlete and tennis enthusiast, Murray was the father of U.S. tennis champion Robert Lindley Murray and Olympic athlete turned cartoonist Frederick ("Feg") Murray.