Athol Laverick Murray (1930–2018) was a historian and archivist. He was the son of George Murray, a bank manager, and Margery Laverick.'Obituary: Dr Athol Murray, historian, scholar and former Keeper of the Records of Scotland', ''The Scotsman'', 20 August 2018
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in 1961 on the records of the Scottish exchequer. He was briefly a teacher at the Sebright School in

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. He joined the Scottish Record Office, now

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, as an Assistant Keeper, in 1953. He became Keeper of Records in 1985. The historian

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noted that Athol Murray had carefully explained the story of John Acheson, a Scottish goldsmith and mining entrepreneur.Julian Goodare, ''State and Society in Early Modern Scotland'' (Oxford, 1999), pp. 126-7 & fn. 86, citing Murray, 'Notes on the Treasury Administration', ''Treasurer's Accounts'', vol. 12, pp. xxx-xxxi.

Publications

* ''The Royal Grammar School Lancaster: A History'' (W. Heffer, 1951). * ''Sebright school, Wolverley: A History'' (W. Heffer, 1953). * 'The Procedure of the Scottish Exchequer in the Early Sixteenth Century', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 40:130 part 2 (October 1961), pp. 89-117. * 'Pursemaster's Accounts', ''Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, X'' (Edinburgh, 1965). * 'Sir John Skene and the exchequer, 1594-1612', ''Stair Society Miscellany'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1971). * 'Financing the Royal Household: James V and his Comptrollers', ''Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland'' (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983), pp. 42–59. * 'Exchequer, Council and Session, 1513-1542', Janet Hadley Williams, ''Stewart Style'' (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1996), pp. 97-117
'The monuments of a family: A collection of jewels associated with Elizabeth of Bohemia', ''PSAS'', 131 (2002), pp. 327-348

'A Memorandum on the Customs, 1597', ''Miscellany of the Scottish History Society'' (Edinburgh, 2004), pp. 66-83

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