Athol Laverick Murray (1930–2018) was a historian and archivist.
He was the son of George Murray, a bank manager, and Margery Laverick.
[1] He studied at Cambridge and gained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1961 on the records of the Scottish exchequer.
He was briefly a teacher at the Sebright School in Worcestershire.
[1][2] The historian Julian Goodare noted that Athol Murray had carefully explained the story of John Acheson, a Scottish goldsmith and mining entrepreneur.