Kenneth Murray (archaeologist)

Kenneth Murray
Born	1903 Cambridgeshire
Died	21 April 1972 Nigeria
Nationality	English
Occupation	Archaeologist

Kenneth C. Murray (1903 - 21 April 1972) was an English artist and archaeologist.

The second son of the chess historian Harold Murray and his suffragette wife, Murray was an elder brother of educationalist and biographer Betty Murray, and a grandson of Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.^[1]

He left Balliol College, Oxford without a degree in order to study art. He left for Nigeria in 1927 and worked there as an art teacher. One of his students was Ben Enwonwu. In 1943 he became Nigeria's first surveyor of antiquities. During his tenure as the director of the Department of Antiquities of the colonial administration he founded the Nigerian Museum in Lagos in 1957.

References

1. ^ Brewer, Charlotte. "Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray (1909-98)". Examining the OED. Hertford College, Oxford: Charlotte Brewer. http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/262/345/#Appendix. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 

• Willett, Frank (Winter 1973). "Kenneth Murray". African Arts 6 (2): 65. JSTOR 3334783. 

Persondata
Name	Murray, Kenneth
Alternative names
Short description	English archaeologist
Date of birth	1903
Place of birth	Cambridgeshire
Date of death	21 April 1972
Place of death	Nigeria

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