Notes for Everitt George Dunne MURRAY

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Notes for Everitt George Dunne MURRAY

Information received from Peter Murray in 1997 shows that Professor Everitt George Dunne Murray, O.B.E., M.A., L.M.S.S.A., M.D., D.Sc., was known as "Opa" to his grandchildren, "Biff" to his relatives, "Ever" to his wife, and "Joburg" to friends and colleagues. He studied medicine in England and became a researcher in bacteriology first with the Medical Research Council in England and then in Canada beginning in 1930. He brought the Murray family to Canada in 1930. For 25 years Dr. Everitt Murray was Professor and Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University in Montreal, and after retiring in 1955 continued his research as Visiting Professor of Medical Research at University of Western Ontario in London. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 21, 1890, eldest child of Dr. George A. E. and Kathleen (Dunne) Murray, and died July 6, 1964, in London, Ontario. He was educated at Cambridge University and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in England. He was married in London, England, on December 17, 1917, to Harriet Winifred Hardwick Woods. He received many honours for his scientific achievements. He was a Captain RAMC in Mesopotamia and India during the first war, and Joint Chairman of the top secret Canadian-U.S.-British Committee on Biological, Chemical and Smoke Warfare during the second war, for which he afterwards received the Medal of Freedom from the U.S. government. He also served for many years as a City Councillor in Montreal. Everitt and Winifred Murray had two children.

A website of the American Society for Microbiology showed that Everitt George Dunne Murray (in 1962) and Robert George Everitt Murray (in 1988) were both named honorary members of the Society of American Bacteriologists. This site as of November 2000 was at http://www.asmusa.org/mbrsrc/archive/honorary.htm.

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