Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven

Baron Murray of Newhaven

Keith Anderson Hope Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven Kt KCB (born July 28, 1903 in Edinburgh - † October 10, 1993 ) was a British agricultural scientist and university professor who became a member of the House of Lords in 1964 as a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

University degree, career and principal of Lincoln College

After attending the Edinburgh Academy, Murray completed a degree in agricultural science at the University of Edinburgh , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Agriculture) in 1925 . After a subsequent position in the Department of Agriculture, he completed postgraduate studies at Cornell University between 1926 and 1929 with financial support from the Commonwealth Fund , which he completed with a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) with a dissertation on Some Aspects of the Supply and Prices of Meat in Great Britain .

After his return to the UK Murray was 1,929 to 1,932 employees at Oriel College of the University of Oxford and then from 1932 to 1944 research scientist at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute AERI ( Agricultural Economics Research Institute ). At the same time he began in 1937 as a Fellow and Treasurer ( Bursar ) at Lincoln College, Oxford University and held both functions until 1953. During this time he was in the Second World War from 1939 to 1940 employee in the Ministry of Food ( Ministry of Food ) and was between Joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1941 and 1942 . He then served as Director of Food and Agriculture at the Headquarters Supply Center in the Middle East between 1942 and 1945 .

After the death of John Arthur Ruskin Munro 1944 Murray was also a member of since 1937 as a representative of the University of Oxford City Council of Oxford , was rector of Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He held this office until his replacement by the art historian Walter Oakeshott in 1953, making him the first rector of this college who did not die in office since Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew . The Lincoln College Keith Murray Senior Scholarship was named in his honor.

House of Lords

After finishing his tenure as rector of Lincoln College, Murray was appointed by then Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler as chair of the University Grants Committee ( University Grants Committee ) in 1953 and held this position for ten years until 1963. During this time he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1955 and has since had the addition of "Sir". In addition, in 1957, at the request of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies, he conducted an investigation into the university system in Australia and in 1963 became Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath .

By a Letters Patent of September 17, 1964 Murray was as a life peer with the title Baron Murray of Newhaven , of Newhaven in the County and City of Edinburgh due Life Peerages Act 1958 into the nobility raised and belonged until his death in the House of Lords as a member. In addition, awarded him the University of Liverpool in 1964 an honor - Doctor of Laws (LL.D. Hon.).

Baron Murray was Chancellor of the University of Southampton between 1964 and 1974 and was also Vice President of Wellington College in Berkshire from 1966 to 1969 and Honorary President of the National Union of Students between 1967 and 1970 . He also held the function of a visitor ( visitor ) at Loughborough University of Technology from 1968 to 1978 and received an honorary doctorate in development aid and foreign policy from the University of Stirling in 1968 .

In 1970, Baron Murray became chairman of the commission to investigate the administration of the university and, after the investigation was completed in 1972, he presented the Murray report named after him, which proposed, among other things, the amalgamation of various university institutions, such as the merger of the Royal Holloway College in 1985 with Bedford College to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

Publications

• Some Aspects of the Supply and Prices of Meat in Great Britain , Cornell University, 1929
• Factors affecting the prices of livestock in Great Britain. A preliminary study , 1931
• Clippings on the currency question in England , co-author Sir Robert Horne, 1932
• The effect of butter and cheese supplies on 'surplus' milk prices , Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 1932
• The planning of Britain's food imports. A quantitative study of the effects of recent legislation , co-author Ruth Louisa Cohen, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 1934
• Milk Consumption , Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 1937
• Milk consumption habits: A preliminary report , Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 1941
• Agriculture , 1955
• Report of the Committee on Australian Universities , Commonwealth Government Printer, 1957
• The Development of the Universities in Great Britain , Royal Statistical Society, 1958
• Higher Agricultural Education in England & Wales , Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, 1962
• Choosing a British university. A guide for candidates in the United States for Fulbright awards and Marshall scholarships , 1967
• Recollections , 1992

Web links

• Keith Murray at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Hon. Keith Anderson Hope Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
• Proof of publication in the Open Library
• Obituary: Lord Murray of Newhaven . In: The Independent of October 16, 1993
• Painting by the Baron Murray of Newhaven

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40366, HMSO, London, January 1, 1955, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
2. ↑ Honorary Graduates of the University  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 76 kB) on the University of Liverpool homepage  
3. ↑ Development and External Affairs: Honorary Graduates ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the University of Stirling