Neville Richard Murphy[1] (3 March 1890 – 15 July 1971)[2] was Principal of Hertford College, Oxford from 1939 to 1959.
Murphy was educated at Christ's Hospital and Brasenose College, Oxford.
[5] The official history of Oxford University uses Murphy as an example of an eccentric don: he was known as the "undisclosed principal" because of his reticence and for repairing watches for undergraduates better than the college porter.
[3] His book, The Interpretation of Plato's Republic, was published by Oxford University Press in 1951.
[6] His portrait by Stanley Spencer hangs in the Senior Common Room at Hertford College.