Walter J. C. Murray

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Walter J. C. Murray
Born	1900
Died	1985
Occupation	Writer, school-teacher
Nationality	English
Subject	Nature 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

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