| Charles B.G. Murphy | |
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| Born | Charles B. G. Murphy January 1, 1906 Suffolk, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer/Philanthropist |
| Years active | 1933–1978 |
| Spouse | None |
Charles B. G. Murphy (AKA C.B.G. Murphy) was a pioneer and philanthropist in psychiatry who was born in 1906 in Suffolk, Massachusetts.
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He attended and graduated from Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1923 and proceeded to Yale University, graduating in 1928. He played football at Yale and was an active member of The Ole Crowes club.
In 1928 (and in 1933) he went to Africa with J. Sterling Rockefeller(J.S. Rockefeller the nephew of John D. Rockefeller and a fellow student at Yale) to study wildlife. Their findings were published in two books.
'Mammals collected by the Rockefeller-Murphy Expedition to Tanganyika Territory and the eastern Belgian Congo. American Museum novitates ; no. 1070 published in 1940 by The American Museum of Natural History.[1]
'The Rediscovery of Pseudocalyptomena''. Detailing their findings of their 1933 expedition to Africa to research the African Green Broadbill. This book is a staple still used today by researchers.[2]
In 1942, he worked as the Chief of the Graveyard Section of the War Production Board Bureau of Industry Conservation. Where he helped seize scrap metal in Valparaiso, Indiana to build war tanks.[3]
In his later years he lived in Las Vegas, Nevada where he died in a local casino/hotel in Stateline, Nevada in 1978.
"Charles B.G. Murphy established the Wood Kalb Foundation in 1953. Through three separate philanthropies, Murphy and his estate have given over $10 million to Yale, exclusively in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Medicine. Following Murphy’s passing, control of the foundation fell to his attorney and friend Ethan Allan Hitchcock of the Yale College Class of 1931, who had once been the roommate of Murphy’s brother. In 1978, Hitchcock gave $1 million to the medical school to establish the Murphy professorships in psychiatry. In 1979, Hitchcock gave $100,000 in support of Yale Cancer Center."[4]
A second trust Murphy established was entitled The Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.The funds were exhausted in 1981 three years after his death.[5]
Yale University, in return, has a professorship named after him. The Charles B. G. Murphy Professor[4]