Harold Vivian "Toby" Murray (9 February 1888 – 4 July 1971) was a New Zealand

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player. Predominantly a wing-forward, Murray represented at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the

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, in 1913 and 1914. He played 22 matches for the All Blacks including four internationals, scoring 12 tries in all. Murray enlisted for the

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in August 1916, and served in the 21st Specialist Company, Machine-Gun Section. He saw action in France, and received a shrapnel wound to the right thigh in April 1918. Following the end of the war, Murray played three matches for the New Zealand Services team in the King's Cup in 1919. During

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, Murray was commissioned as a lieutenant in the

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in 1941, and was posted to the reserve of officers at the beginning of 1944. Murray farmed and bred sheep in North Canterbury, where he was active in the local agricultural and pastoral association, and served as a member of the North Canterbury Electric Power Board. He died at

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on 4 July 1971. The athlete and architect

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 under ...

(1886–1943) was his cousin.

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