Athol Murray (historian)

Athol Laverick Murray (1930–2018) was a historian and archivist.

He was the son of George Murray, a bank manager, and Margery Laverick.[1]

He was first educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and then studied at Cambridge and gained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1961 on the records of the Scottish exchequer.[2] He was briefly a teacher at the Sebright School in Worcestershire. He joined the Scottish Record Office, now National Records of Scotland, as an Assistant Keeper, in 1953. He became Keeper of Records in 1985.[1][3]

He provided an essay on the administration of the Scottish treasury and its documentary record in 1970.[4] The historian Julian Goodare noted that Athol Murray had carefully explained the story of John Acheson, a Scottish goldsmith and mining entrepreneur.[5]

Publications

  • The Royal Grammar School Lancaster: A History (W. Heffer, 1951).
  • Sebright school, Wolverley: A History (W. Heffer, 1953).
  • 'The Procedure of the Scottish Exchequer in the Early Sixteenth Century', Scottish Historical Review, 40:130 part 2 (October 1961), pp. 89-117.
  • 'The pre-Union Records of the Scottish Exchequer', Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2:3 (April 1961), pp. 88–101
  • 'Pursemaster's Accounts', Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, X (Edinburgh, 1965).
  • "The Revenues of the Bishopric of Moray in 1538", Innes Review, 4 (Spring 1968), pp. 40–56. doi:10.3366/inr.1968.19.1.40
  • 'Sir John Skene and the exchequer, 1594-1612', Stair Society Miscellany, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1971).
  • 'Huntly's Rebellion and the administration of justice in north-east Scotland, 1570–1573', Northern Scotland, 4 (1981).
  • 'Financing the Royal Household: James V and his Comptrollers', Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983), pp. 42–59.
  • 'Exchequer, Council and Session, 1513-1542', Janet Hadley Williams, Stewart Style (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1996), pp. 97-117
  • 'The monuments of a family: A collection of jewels associated with Elizabeth of Bohemia', PSAS, 131 (2002), pp. 327-348
  • 'A Memorandum on the Customs, 1597', Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (Edinburgh, 2004), pp. 66-83

References

  1. 1 2 'Obituary: Dr Athol Murray, historian, scholar and former Keeper of the Records of Scotland', The Scotsman, 20 August 2018
  2. ↑ "Murray, Athol Laverick, (born 8 Nov. 1930), Keeper of the Records of Scotland, 1985–90", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U28562, retrieved 23 July 2026
  3. ↑ Alan Borthwick, 'Athol Murray, 8 November 1930–24 August 2018: An Appreciation', SHR, 98:1 (April, 2019), pp. 128-30
  4. ↑ Athol Murray, "Notes on the Treasury Administration", Charles Thorpe McInnes, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 12 (Edinburgh: HMSO, 1970), pp. xii–xlix.
  5. ↑ Julian Goodare, State and Society in Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 1999), pp. 126-7 & fn. 86, citing Murray, 'Notes on the Treasury Administration', Treasurer's Accounts, vol. 12, pp. xxx-xxxi.
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