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Margaret Murray

1863 - 1963

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Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She was president of the Folklore Society from 1953 to 1955, and published widely. Born to a wealthy middle-class English family in Calcutta, British India, Murray divided her youth between India, Britain, and Germany, training as both a nurse and a social worker. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Murray is the 77th most popular archaeologist (down from 46th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from India (down from 285th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Margaret Murray ranks 77 out of 151. Before her are Florentino Ameghino, Giuseppe Tucci, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Sylvanus Morley, and Victor Loret. After her are Dorothy Garrod, Halet Çambel, Charles W. Gilmore, William F. Albright, Jean-François Séguier, and Joseph Orbeli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Margaret Murray ranks 105. Before her are Lucien Pissarro, C. Aubrey Smith, Anthony Hope, Black Elk, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Alfred Perot. After her are Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Ljubomir Davidović, Richard F. Outcault, Lawrence Lambe, and Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones. Among people deceased in 1963, Margaret Murray ranks 121. Before her are Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Jens Hundseid, Lisa Tetzner, Barnum Brown, Woldemar Hägglund, and Benny Moré. After her are Vsevolod Ivanov, Louis Bastien, Erich Ollenhauer, Lee Wallard, Edwin Linkomies, and Richard Oswald.

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In India

Among people born in India, Margaret Murray ranks 518 out of 1,861. Before her are Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Pankaj Kapur (1954), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), and C. N. Annadurai (1909). After her are Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), Kumaragupta I (400), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Asin (1985), Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In India

Among archaeologists born in India, Margaret Murray ranks 1. 

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