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Basil Murray

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to report on the Spanish Civil War, but his dispatches failed to impress his employers and he was fired after a few months. According to
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during a speech at Oxford. He was subsequently tried and convicted of breach of the peace in a proceeding described by the philosopher
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claimed that Murray was actually bitten to death by his pet monkey as he lay in a drunken stupor in his hotel room in Valencia;
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Murray was employed at the Liberal Campaign Department in 1927. He was Liberal candidate at the
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with the model and first name for his anti-hero, Basil Seal, star of the novels
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of Japan during his visit to Europe. As a journalist, he covered the
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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
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suggested a rather more sordid relationship with the animal.
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Cambridge University Press. p. 179. 931:In 1937 Murray was sent to Valencia by the 793: 648: 448: 309: 31: 20: 1149:"LCC Election: Full results of polling". 949:as he was being evacuated to Marseilles. 183:Murray was the second son of the scholar 16:British editor, journalist and politician 302:as a disastrous miscarriage of justice. 999: 1333:People educated at Charterhouse School 187:and Lady Mary Howard, daughter of the 882: 802: 754: 657: 460: 411: 317: 7: 1056:. Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd. 451:1928 London County Council election 267:. He was Liberal candidate for the 211:(1890–1967), was the first wife of 14: 1252:Garnett, Robert Reginald (1990). 845: 820: 719: 698: 675: 582: 562: 542: 522: 500: 478: 377: 357: 335: 243:, making radio broadcasts from 203:. 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He was educated at 1096:. pp. 163–164. 1074:. London: Macmillan. 854:Basil Andrew Murray 728:James Laird Kinloch 707:Basil Andrew Murray 551:Basil Andrew Murray 386:Basil Andrew Murray 294:the British fascist 189:9th Earl of Carlisle 1177:Whitaker's Almanack 799: 654: 457: 314: 247:. His biography of 219:Professional career 197:New College, Oxford 193:Charterhouse School 169:Basil Andrew Murray 149:New College, Oxford 1213:The New York Times 977:Put Out More Flags 794: 649: 510:James Elliott Mark 449: 310: 249:David Lloyd George 1037:(Subscription or 983:Wigs on the Green 924: 923: 792: 791: 647: 646: 447: 446: 366:David Amyas Ross 237:Spanish Civil War 213:Arnold J. 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Index


Liberal
Ann
Gilbert Murray
Rosalind Murray
New College, Oxford
Liberal Party
Gilbert Murray
9th Earl of Carlisle
Charterhouse School
New College, Oxford
Algernon Newton
Ann Paludan
Rosalind Murray
Arnold J. Toynbee
Equerry
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
Spanish Civil War
Republican side
Valencia
David Lloyd George
1928 St Marylebone by-election
Argyllshire
1929
1935 General Elections
anti-fascist
Hitler
riot by heckling
Oswald Mosley
Isaiah Berlin

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