The Rev. John Owen Farquhar Murray (6 May 1858 – 29 November 1944) was an

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clergyman, and Master of

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from 1909 to 1928.

Biography

Murray was a son of Surgeon-General John Murray. He married at St. Michael′s church,

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, on 9 December 1902 to Frances Margaret Somerset, daughter of Rev. R. B. Somerset. He was in 1902 Examining chaplain to the

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( Lord Alwyne Compton), and a dean of

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References

* ‘MURRAY, Rev. John Owen Farquhar’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 201
accessed 7 March 2013
* 1858 births 1944 deaths 19th-century Church of England clergy 20th-century Church of England clergy Masters of Selwyn College, Cambridge Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge {{ChurchofEngland-clergy-stub