Keith Anderson Hope Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, KCB (28 July 1903 – 10 October 1993)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – subscription based – accessed 1 July 2011
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and rector of

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Early life

He was the son of Lord Murray, a

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, and his wife Annie Florence Nicolson. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and the

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where he gained a BSc in Agriculture, Murray went into employment with the Ministry of Agriculture from 1925 to 1926. He was then awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, and spent three years at

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where he was awarded a

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. In 1929 he attended

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, and the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AERI) until 1932. He died on 10 October 1993 and is buried with his parents and siblings in

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in north Edinburgh.

Career

He became a research officer for the AERI, a post he held until 1944. In 1937, however, he was appointed a

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and

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, as well as being appointed by the University to

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. On the death of the rector J. A. R. Munro in 1944, he was elected to the rectorship, a position he held until his retirement in 1953. He became the first rector since Nathaniel Crew not to die in office. On his retirement from the rectorship,

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, the then-

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, appointed him chairman of the University Grants Committee, a post he held for a decade. In 1957,

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, the Australian Prime Minister, asked him to serve on the Committee on Australian Universities. He was appointed a

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(KCB) in the 1963 New Year Honours. He was vice president of Wellington College (1966–69) and honorary president of the National Union of Students (1967–70). He was chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the Governance of the

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(1970–72) which produced the Murray Report. This led to the merger of several of the constituent colleges of the university such as Royal Holloway College and Bedford College under the leadership of their principals Dr Roy Miller and Professor Dorothy Wedderburn. He was

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of Southampton University from 1964 to 1974. He was chairman of the

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(1962–71).Entry in ''Who Was Who'' 2011 on-line subscription version, accessed 1 July 2011
Ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved on 2014-06-04. He held honorary fellowships of

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, Birkbeck College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. On 17 September 1964, he was created a

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as Baron Murray of Newhaven, of Newhaven in the County and City of Edinburgh. The Keith Murray Senior Scholarship at Lincoln College is named in his memory.Keith Murray Senior ScholarshipScholarship Search
UK.

Arms

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Keith 1903 births 1993 deaths People educated at Edinburgh Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Cornell University alumni Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford Harkness Fellows Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Life peers Rectors of Lincoln College, Oxford People associated with Birkbeck, University of London Chancellors of the University of Southampton Life peers created by Elizabeth II