Walter J. C. Murray

Walter J. C. Murray
Born1900
Died1985
OccupationWriter, school-teacher
NationalityEnglish
SubjectNature writing

Walter John Campbell Murray was born in Seaford, East Sussex 20 August 1900.[1] During the First World War he spent time at sea as a radio officer in the Mercantile Marine and later served in the R.A.F. He was a journalist in London for a short time before moving to Horam in Sussex to spend a year gathering and marketing wild herbs.[2] Murray later became a schoolmaster, and in 1926 founded his own independent co-educational school of which he remained headmaster for forty years.[3] Throughout his life he was a keen student of natural history, and this took him to many remote corners and islands of the United Kingdom. Murray was well known as a nature photographer, as well as a radio and television broadcaster.[4] He died in January 1985.[1]

Bibliography

  • Nature's Undiscovered Kingdom, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1946
  • Copsford, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948; Tartarus Press 2019 ISBN 9781912586110, and Little Toller Books 2019. ISBN 9781908213709
  • A Sanctuary Planted, Phoenix House Ltd, 1953
  • Romney Marsh, Robert Hale, 1953

with L. Hugh Newman:

  • Stand and Stare, Staples Press, 1950
  • Nature's Way: Questions and Answers on Animal Behaviour, Country Life, 1952
  • Wander and Watch, Staples Press, 1954

References

  1. ^ a b Wareham, Tom (2017). The Green Man of Horam, The Life and Work of Walter J. C. Murray. CreateSpace. ISBN 9781541031739.
  2. ^ Copsford by Walter J.C. Murray, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1948
  3. ^ From Heathfield to East Hoathly, B.K. Russell, Tartarus Press, 2004, pps110-112
  4. ^ Dustjacket biography Romney Marsh by Walter J.C. Murray, Robert Hale, 1982 (third edition)