member of the senate of the University of London. Also, in 1915, he became deputy reader in Roman Law at Oxford and then deputy professor of civil law in 1916. 1925–34: Years of retirement and journalism. Selected bibliography First Work in English: Grammar and Composition Taught by a Comparative Study of Equivalent Forms, Oxford University, 1875 The Globe Readers, Books One to Five, London: Macmillan & Co., 1881–84. "A short history of Roman law" in W.A. Hunter, A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code, 2nd edition (London, 1885) 1–121 [repr. in 3rd ed. 1897; 4th ed. 1903]; usually referred to as "The External History of Roman Law" "Lex Dei," Classical Review 27 (1913) 274–277 [review of M. Hyamson, Mosicarum et Romanarum Legum Collatio (London, 1913)] W.A. Hunter (revised and enlarged by A.F. Murison), Introduction to Roman Law, 8th edition (London, 1921) Horace rendered in English verse (London, 1931) The Bucolics & Georgics of Vergil rendered in English hexameters (London, 1932) The Odes of Pindar rendered in English verse (London, 1933) The Iliad of Homer rendered in English hexameters, vol.1: Books I-XII (London, 1933) "The law in the Latin poets," in Atti del Congresso Internazionale di diritto romano: Roma 2 (Pavia, 1935) 607–639 Schiller's Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem rendered into English Verse. Translated by Alexander Falconer Murison. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931. Footnotes Sources External links http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35152 http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/murison_alexander.htm http://www.murison.net https://web.archive.org/web/20100508012100/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/volterra/murison.htm 1847 births 1934 deaths Scottish scholars and academics People from Buchan Scottish lawyers Scottish biographers Legal historians Translators of Homer