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found to be most useful. Dr. Hannay died very suddenly on the 12th of 
January, 1910, and was interred at Fredericton. 
(3.)—GrorGE Murray, B.A. (Oxon.) 
The third member whose loss the Society has to deplore was one 
who, though not an active contributor to its Transactions, lent it no 
small measure of distinction by his acknowledged talents and scholar- 
ship. The late Mr. George Murray was born in Regent Square, London, 
on the 23rd of March, 1830, and died in Montreal on the 13th of March 
of the present year, being thus only ten days short of eighty years of age. 
The last paper read by him before the Society was one on “Sydney 
Smith” the celebrated essayist and wit and (somewhat invita Minerva,) 
moral philosopher. This was at the meeting held at St. John in the year 
1994. For some reason the paper, which was written with all the 
author’s usual grace of style, was not handed in for publication, and 
does not therefore, appear in the Transactions. 
Mr. Murray was the son of a scholarly father, Mr. James Murray, 
who coming from Scotland to London became connected with the 
London Times, then at the height of its authority and power, as foreign 
correspondent and contributor. In this capacity he travelled much on 
the Continent. It is stated that he was versed in seventeen languages. 
From him his son, our late colleague, may well have inherited the great 
interest in language as an instrument of thought and culture, which 
through life he manifested. His earliest education was obtained at a 
school at Walthamstow in Essex. Thence he passed to King’s College, 
London, where he quickly gained distinction by his proficiency in the 
classics and his decided talent for versification both in English and in 
Latin. After winning various prizes at this institution, he received, on 
the recommendation of the learned principal Dr. Jelf, the highest honour 
it could bestow by being made an Associate (A.K.C.) He went to Ox- 
ford, entering Hertford College, and began his career there by carrying 
off from thirty competitors the Lusby scholarship of the value of £89 a 
year for three years. Other successes were to follow, and finally he 
graduated with honours. It is not, perhaps, surprising that later he did 
not care much to obscure a B.A. so won by any less significant degree. 
Amongst his college friends were two with whom he formed a life-long 
attachment, F. W. Farrar and Edwin Arnold. Both, it is needless to 
say, became distinguished in later life, Farrar as Dean of Canterbury 
and the author of important works in philology and theology, and 
Arnold as poet and journalist. A few years ago the latter passed 
through Montreal on his way from the East, and, as the writer of an ad- 
mirable notice of Murray in the Montreal Gazette says, “it was a gala day 
for the two elderly poets—a day rich in memories.” Murray himself 
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