Sir Herbert Harley Murray KCB (4 November 1829 – 11 March 1904) was a Scottish colonial governor. A member of

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headed by the

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, he was born in

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, the son of the Right Reverend George Murray, Bishop of Rochester, by Lady Sarah Maria, daughter of Robert Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull.thepeerage.com Sir Herbert Harley Murray
/ref> He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and entered the civil service in 1852. A keen amateur

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er, Murray played

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for the

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and the

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in 1853. He was chairman of England's

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and then acted as a relief commissioner for Newfoundland after the 1894 bank crash. Murray was made

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in 1895 and knighted that same year. Murray tried in vain to prevent the sale of the

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by trying to stop the contract from getting royal assent. Murray was critical of Premier James Spearman Winter's administration and was recalled in 1898. Murray married Charlotte Letitia Caroline, daughter of

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, in 1859. They had several children. She died in 1884. Murray remained a widower until his death in March 1904, aged 74.

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Biography at Government House ''The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador''Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''

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1829 births 1904 deaths Governors of Newfoundland Colony

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