Kenneth Murray

Kenneth Crosswaithe Murray (1902 – 21 April 1972) better known as K.C. Murray was an English art curator and teacher. The second son of the chess historian H. J. R. Murray and his suffragette wife Kate Crosthwaite, Murray was an elder brother of educationalist and biographer Elisabeth Murray, and a grandson of Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. He first studied at Balliol College, Oxford but later left in order to study art at the School of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham. Arriving in Lagos, Nigeria on December 14, 1927. He undertook book illustrations in Oyo, Oyo (south west Nigeria) and inspections of the Arts and Crafts Schools in Kano and Katsina before returning to Lagos in January 1928 to teach arts at Kings College, Queenss College, and the Government School.