Gilbert Murray
Noun
Meaning
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
Gilbert Murray was among Oxford scholars who signed a statement supporting Eden; such an act by the famous advocate of internationalism amazed both sides.
Short, p. 82 Also in 1911 he wrote Hecuba's Lament, a setting of Gilbert Murray 's translation from Euripides built on a seven-beat refrain designed, says Dickinson, to represent Hecuba 's defiance of divine wrath.
The Policy of the Entente, 1904-1914 : a reply to Professor Gilbert Murray.