Edward Murray (c. 1800 - 9 June 1874) was the
Registrar of Slaves and later
Marshal of the Island of Trinidad in the 19th century.
Edward Murray was born around 1800, the son of
Henry Murray
Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and underg ...
who occupied a number of public offices in Trinidad.
He succeeded his father as a slave registrar.
His youngest son was the
obstetrician Gustavus Murray
Gustavus Charles Philip Murray (1831 – 7 August 1887) was a British obstetrician who may have been the inspiration for Luke Fildes' 1891 painting ''The Doctor (painting), The Doctor''. His work in the examination of pregnant women was recognise ...
(1831-1887) who practiced in London
["Obituary. Gustavus Charles Philip Murray, M.D."]
'' The Lancet'', 20 August 1887, p. 394. and who was the inspiration of ''
The Doctor (painting)
''The Doctor'' is an 1891 painting by Luke Fildes that depicts a Victorian doctor observing the critical stage in a child's illness while the parents gaze on helplessly from the periphery. It has been used to portray the values of the ideal physi ...
'' by
Luke Fildes
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Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was a British painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mar ...
in 1891.
Murray was appointed Registrar of Slaves in 1821 after having deputised for his father who had also been registrar.
In April 1851 he was made Marshal of the Island of Trinidad. Murray died in Port of Spain on 9 June 1874 at the age of seventy four.
["General News", ''The Bradford Observer'', 24 July 1874, p. 4.]
See also
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Slavery in Trinidad
The history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Indigenous First Peoples. Trinidad was visited by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498, (he never landed in Tobago), and claimed in the name of Spain. ...
References
External links
*https://books.google.com/books?id=W2ilmBSkHY8C&pg=PA110
*https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHDZ-Y2S
British Trinidad and Tobago people
19th-century Caribbean people
1800s births
1874 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
British colonial governors and administrators in the Americas
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