John Rose Murray (19 December 1898 - 2 May 1991) was a Ceylonese accountant and politician in Colonial Ceylon. John Rose Murray was born on 19 December 1898 in

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, the youngest of four children of John Rose Murray, engine fitter, and Helen née McLeod, domestic servant. In September 1929 he married Hilda Beatrice Cooper (1911-2015). They had four children: John Telfer McLeod (b.1929), a daughter and two other sons. In May 1947 they travelled to

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on board the

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from Liverpool. A chartered accountant of the

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, he was appointed as a member of

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on 6 June 1952, serving until his resignation in March 1958. Murray was the Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on several occasions between 1950 and 1955. He died on 2 May 1991 at

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, and he was buried in Comely Bank Cemetery, Edinburgh.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, John Rose 1898 births People from British Ceylon Sri Lankan accountants Scottish accountants Sri Lankan people of English descent Members of the 2nd Parliament of Ceylon Members of the 3rd Parliament of Ceylon 1991 deaths 20th-century Scottish businesspeople