Charles Murray, Lord Murray

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Charles David Murray, Lord Murray CMG KC PC ( October 20, 1866 - June 9, 1936 ) was a Scottish politician and judge.

Life

Murray was born in 1866 to the silk merchant David William Murray . He attended the University of Edinburgh and earned a master's degree in 1885 . In 1888 he left the university with a bachelor's degree in law. He was admitted to the bar the following year and married Annie Florence in 1896 . In 1907 Murray was appointed crown attorney . During the First World War , Murray served in the British armed forces with the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1918 he was accepted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George with the rank of Companion . In the same year he served as sheriff of Renfrew and Bute . He was awarded a doctorate in law by the University of Edinburgh in 1919. In the same year he was appointed dean of the university's law school. Murray held this position until his appointment as Solicitor General the following year.

In 1923 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Political career

For the first time Murray appeared in the general election in December 1910 to elections at the national level. He ran for the Conservative Party for the constituency of Edinburgh South . On election day, however, Murray could not prevail against his liberal opponent Charles Henry Lyell and thus missed the entry into the British House of Commons . In the first post-war election in 1918 , Murray ran again in the same constituency. For the Unionist Party , founded in 1912 , he clearly won the mandate against the liberal David Caird and moved into the House of Commons for the first time. After his appointment as Solicitor General, Murray resigned in order to keep his mandate in the by-elections due despite severe loss of votes. After his elevation to the Privy Council in 1922, he did not run for any further elections and left the House of Commons in the same year. In the following general election, Samuel Chapman held the mandate for the Unionists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1922, p. 116.
  2. ↑ Charles Murray in Hansard (English)
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1916, p. 210.
  5. ↑ a b Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1922, p. 208.
  6. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook 1926, p. 264.

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SURNAME Murray, Charles, Lord Murray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Charles David, Lord Murray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and judge
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1866
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1936