Richard Paget Murray (1842,
Isle of Man
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– 1908,
Shapwick, Dorset
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Within the parish, about a mil ...
, Dorset) was an
English
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clergyman
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,
botanist and
lepidopterist
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Origins
Post-Renaissance, t ...
.
After secondary education at
King William's College
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, he matriculated in 1864 at
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. There he graduated with a B.A. in 1868 and an M.A. in 1871. He was ordained a
deacon
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in 1868 and a priest in 1869.
His
herbarium contained plants from
Ireland
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, the
Canary Islands,
Mauritius
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,
Portugal
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,
France
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, the
Alps
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and the
Dolomites
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. Specimens dispersed after his death are held by several institutions including the
Natural History Museum (London) and
Kew Gardens
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.
He was elected a Fellow of the
Linnean Society
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in 1882.
Works
Arthur Cayley
partial list
*Murray, Rev. R. P., 1873. Descriptions of new Species of Exotic Rhopalocera. ''Ent. mon. Mag.'' 10: 107–108.
*Murray, Rev. R. P., 1873. Description of a new Japanese species of Lycaena, and change of name of L. cassioides Murray. ''Ent. mon. Mag.''. 10: 126.
*Murray, Rev. R. P., 1874a. Descriptions of some new species belonging to the genus Lycaena. ''Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.'' 22(4): 523–529, 1 pl.
*Murray, Rev. R. P., 1874b. Some notes on Japanese butterflies with descriptions of new genera and species. ''Ent. mon. Mag.'' 11:166–172.
*paper in the ''
Journal of Botany, British and Foreign
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''.
References
*Ray Desmond, 1994 ''Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers'' London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis ; London : Natural History Museum, 1994.
1842 births
1908 deaths
People educated at King William's College
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
English lepidopterists
Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
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