Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven

He was the son of Lord Murray, a Senator of the College of Justice, and his wife Annie Florence Nicolson. Educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh 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 Cornell University where he was awarded a PhD. In 1929 he attended Oriel College, Oxford, and the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AERI) until 1932. He died on 10 October 1993 and is buried with his parents and siblings in Warriston Cemetery 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 fellow and bursar of Lincoln College, Oxford, as well as being appointed by the University to Oxford City Council. 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. 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 University of London (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 held honorary fellowships of Downing College, Cambridge, Oriel College, Oxford, Birkbeck College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. On 17 September 1964, he was created a life peer as Baron Murray of Newhaven, of Newhaven in the County and City of Edinburgh. ==Arms==

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