Andrew Murray (1813–1880) was an Australian journalist. Andrew Murray was born in Scotland, and educated at the

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, winning prizes as an

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. He emigrated to

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in 1839, and founded a drapery business in

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(at that time Adelaide's foremost shopping precinct) with George Greig as Murray, Greig, & Co. Murray married Jessie Spence, sister of

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, in 1841. In 1841, the business failed, and Murray was able to find employment as a journalist with the ''

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'', the second newspaper to be established in South Australia. In 1844, he purchased the ''Southern Australian'' from the proprietor, Richard Blackham, and was its editor and proprietor till the exodus of workers to the gold-fields of Victoria severely strained South Australia's economy, and the ''South Australian'', as Murray had renamed it, reverted from bi-weekly to weekly, then in July 1851 was forced to fold. He was responsible for printing at least one other newspaper, the German-language '' Suedaustralische Zeitung'' and its successor '' Adelaider Deutsche Zeitung''. Murray then migrated to Victoria, and worked as commercial editor with '' The Argus'', and acted as editor in 1855 and 1856. He was subsequently the editor and proprietor of the (Melbourne) ''Economist''. He published ''Murray's Prices Current'' and an

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book, and also traded in wines, but was forced to declare insolvency in 1874. In the late 1850s, Murray bought land in

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, 10 km East of Melbourne. He named his house 'Balwyn' from the Gaelic bal and the Saxon wyn, meaning 'the home of the vine'. Balwyn Road and the suburb of

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were named after it. The house was located on the site now occupied by Fintona Girls' School. He died at Waterloo (now Yarragon),

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and is buried in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Andrew 1813 births 1880 deaths Australian newspaper editors Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-century Australian journalists 19th-century Australian male writers 19th-century male writers The Argus (Melbourne) people Australian male journalists