"George Gilbert Aimé Murray OM FBA (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many ...
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spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.
He was a prominent humanist, and served as President of the Ethical Union (now Humanists UK) from 1929–1930 and was a delegate at the inaugural World Humanist Congress in 1952 which established Humanists International." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021)
