Alexander Murison

Murison was born at New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 3 March 1847. He was born to a crofting family and looked after cattle as a boy. He won a bursary to Aberdeen Grammar School where he excelled and won a scholarship to the University of Aberdeen. After achieving a first class honours M.A. degree in classics, he returned to his old school and was an English Master there from 1869 to 1876. He married Elizabeth Logan in 1870 and they had two children, Alexander Logan (1871–1948) and Sir James William Murison (1872–1945), who became Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. ==Academic career in London and Oxford==

• 1876–81: Moved to London in 1876 and enrolled as trainee barrister in the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1881. • 1881–83: Earned his living as a teacher, journalist, and legal practice before the Privy Council and the Chancery Division. • 1883–1925: Professor of Roman Law and later of Jurisprudence at University College, London. • 1912–24: Dean of the Faculty of Laws and member of the senate of the University of London. Also, in 1915, he became deputy reader in Roman Law at Oxford and then deputy professor of civil law in 1916. • 1925–34: Years of retirement and journalism. ==Selected bibliography==

• First Work in English: Grammar and Composition Taught by a Comparative Study of Equivalent Forms, Oxford University, 1875 • The Globe Readers, Books One to Five, London: Macmillan & Co., 1881–84. • "A short history of Roman law" in W.A. Hunter, A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code, 2nd edition (London, 1885) 1–121 [repr. in 3rd ed. 1897; 4th ed. 1903]; usually referred to as "The External History of Roman Law" • "Lex Dei," Classical Review 27 (1913) 274–277 [review of M. Hyamson, Mosicarum et Romanarum Legum Collatio (London, 1913)] • W.A. Hunter (revised and enlarged by A.F. Murison), Introduction to Roman Law, 8th edition (London, 1921) • Horace rendered in English verse (London, 1931) • The Bucolics & Georgics of Vergil rendered in English hexameters (London, 1932) • The Odes of Pindar rendered in English verse (London, 1933) • The Iliad of Homer rendered in English hexameters, vol.1: Books I-XII (London, 1933) • "The law in the Latin poets," in Atti del Congresso Internazionale di diritto romano: Roma 2 (Pavia, 1935) 607–639 • ''Schiller's Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem rendered into English Verse.'' Translated by Alexander Falconer Murison. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931. ==Footnotes==