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Lindley Murray

Lindley Murray 1745-1826, American grammarian, b. Pennsylvania. Murray practiced law until the Revolution, during which he acquired a fortune, and in 1784 went to live in England. A Quaker minister, he devoted his time to writing books on English grammar and religious essays. His most popular book was his English Grammar (1st ed. 1795), written for a Friends' school. It was the first standard English grammar and was tremendously popular.

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Murray, Lindley (1745–1826), published an English grammar in 1795, a reader in 1799, and a spelling book in 1804, which earned him the title of ‘the father of English grammar’.

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Murray, Lindley (1745–1826),a Quaker minister and grammarian, emigrated from his native Pennsylvania to England (1784), where he spent the rest of his life. Although the author of many religious tracts and a number of schoolbooks, he is best known for his English Grammar (1795, revised 1818), which until about 1850 monopolized this field in England and the U.S. His Memoirs was published in 1826.

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