Basil Murray

Basil Murray (1902 – 1937) was the second son of the scholar Gilbert Murray and his wife Lady Mary Howard, daughter of the 9th Earl of Carlisle.

His sister Rosalind was the first wife of Arnold J. Toynbee. Murray attended the University of Oxford, where he had a somewhat unsavoury reputation, and Evelyn Waugh met him there in 1922. Murray would later provide Waugh with the model and first name for his anti-hero Basil Seal, star of the novels "Black Mischief" and "Put Out More Flags".Fact|date=December 2007 He died in Spain of pneumonia, having travelled out as a journalist to cover the Spanish Civil War.

He was the father of the writer Venetia Murray (1932 - 2004).

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*The Hon. Peter Rodd, another source for Basil Seal