See also
| Husband: | Everitt George Dunne MURRAY (1890-1964) | |
| Wife: | Harriet Winifred Hardwick WOODS (1895-1990) | |
| Children: | Robert George Everitt MURRAY (1919-2022) | |
| LIVING | ||
| Marriage Licence | 19 Nov 1917 | Chelsea, London, England1 |
| St Luke, Redcliffe Square Everitt George Dunne Murray appeared personally and prayed a licence to marry Harriet Woods then residing in Buxton, and was granted the licence. |
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| Marriage | 17 Dec 1917 | Kensington, London, England2 |
| St Luke's Married by licence. |
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| Name: | Everitt George Dunne MURRAY3 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Name Suffix: | O.B.E. | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 21 Jul 1890 | Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa4 |
| Education | 1912 (age 21-22) | M.A.; Cantab |
| Education | F.R.S.; Canada | |
| Education | 1916 (age 25-26) | L.M.S.S.A.; London (Camb & St Barts) |
| Residence | 17 Dec 1917 (age 27) | Chelsea, London, England2 |
| 40 Redcliffe Square | ||
| Occupation | 17 Dec 1917 (age 27) | Captain R.A.M.C.; Chelsea, London, England2 |
| He had served as Captain RAMC in Mesopotamia during the Great War treating dysentery which endangered the war effort there, until stricken with it himself. |
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| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 30 yrs 11 mns) | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England4 |
| 73 Fitzroy Street | ||
| Occupation | 19 Jun 1921 (age 30) | Research Bacteriologist, (immunology) Registered medical Qualificatiom; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England4 |
| Employment: The Medical Research Council Place of Work: The University of Cambridge Field Laboratories, Milton, Cambridge He was very eminent in his field as a bacteriologist. |
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| National or Tribal Origin | 19 Jun 1921 (age 30) | Resident, British Born4 |
| Death | 6 Jul 1964 (age 73) | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Cause: myocardial infarction | ||
| Burial | 1964 | London, Ontario, Canada |
| He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery and Crematorium | ||
| DecoratrionsHonours | Officer of the British Empire | |
| Name: | Harriet Winifred Hardwick WOODS5 | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Nickname: | Freda | |
| Alt. Name: | Freda MURRAY | |
| Father: | Thomas Hardwick WOODS (1863-1947) | |
| Mother: | Florence Emily Rose HEARD (1863-1941) | |
| Birth | 29 Apr 1895 | Riverside County, California, USA5 |
| Baptism | 15 Oct 1895 (age 0) | Lower Machen, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Census | 31 Mar 1901 (age 5) | Mutford, Suffolk, England5 |
| Hall Farm, Blundeston | ||
| Census | 2 Apr 1911 (age 15) | Mutford, Suffolk, England6 |
| Blundeston Hall | ||
| Residence | 17 Dec 1917 (age 22) | Buxton, Derbyshire, England2 |
| Devonshire Hospital | ||
| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 26 yrs 2 mns) | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England4 |
| 73 Fitzroy Street | ||
| Occupation | 19 Jun 1921 (age 26) | Home duties; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England4 |
| National or Tribal Origin | 19 Jun 1921 (age 26) | Resident, British Born4 |
| Residence | 1986 (age 91) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Pointe-Claire When her mother was about 91 she left the family home in London, Ontario, and went to live here with her daughter Susan. |
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| Death | 29 May 1990 (age 95) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Burial | 1990 | London, Ontario, Canada |
| She was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery and Crematorium | ||
| Name: | Robert George Everitt MURRAY | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Doris Louise MARCHAND (1916-1984) | |
| Spouse 2: | Marion Spettigue North LUNLEY (1919-c. 2013) | |
| Birth | 19 May 1919 | Ruislip, Middlesex, England |
| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 2 yrs 1 mn) | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England4 |
| 73 Fitzroy Street | ||
| Death | 18 Feb 2022 (age 102) | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Name: | LIVING | |
| Sex: | Female | |
After the war he was a research pathologist at the Medical Research Council and
lecturer at Cambridge University in England, until moving to Canada in 1930 to take up
the post of Professor and Head of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at
McGill University in Montreal, from which he retired 26 years later in 1956.
While there
he was also a Montreal City Councillor representing McGill.
During World War II he headed a secret Canadian National Defense biological warfare
research program in conjunction with similar efforts in Britain and the USA, for which he
received the US Medal of Freedom.
In retirement he and his wife Freda lived in London Ontario, where he was Visiting
Professor of Medical Research at University of Western Ontario in London,
Notes from 'My Ain Folk' by Marge Shearing. Page 57.
Professor E.G.D. Murray O.B.E. Medal of Freedom, U.S.A. M.A. L.M.M.S.A., M.D. (Hon), F.R.C.S.
Professor Everitt or 'Ever', (nickname among S.A. Relations 'Biff') , at .Cambridge 'Joburg') eldest son of George and Kit grew to a man of splendid character and brilliant attainment in his life's work. He spent his early years, throughout the Boer War 1899 - 1902 with his grandparents at 'Roode Bloem'. There he developed his great love of the veld and his interest in the birds, beasts and the plants thereon. In a letter to an aunt in 1945 he says "Those years among my loving and splendid people influenced me greatly and I recognise much that I gained then". By this time his own home was not a happy one. His parents no longer agreed. But he never for a moment lost his love and admiration for his father. From him he learned a great deal about hunting, fishing and shooting.... in his latter years he became a fisherman of quite unusual merit.
He received his early education in Johannesburg. At the age of 19 he went to England, entered Christ's College, Cambridge where he took his B.A. with Honours.
From there he went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and in 1916 qualified as a L.M.S.S.A. (Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery of the Society of Apothecaries).
In 1916 he received a commission in the R.A.M.C. and was sent out to Mesopotamia to study Dysentery. After contracting the disease himself he was sent home, and appointed in 1917 to the Staff of the Vaccine Department of the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank.
On his way back to England from India, where he was sent to hospital from the Middle East, he broke his journey in South Africa and spent time with his father in Johannesburg.
His mother at this time was living in England.
This was the only time he returned to his old home country. I was at school at St. Cyprians at the time and one memorable Sunday, before sailing from Cape Town, he took me out for the day.
In 1917 he married Hariet Winifred Hardwick 'Freda' Woods, daughter of Captain Thomas Hardwick Woods J.P. of Blundeston Manor, Suffolk. Freda's predecessors had lived at Blundeston Manor for at least 300o years and most probably for 600 years (Winifred Woods of Blundeston Manor married James Thurtell).
This was an outstandingly good marriage of 'two people who were truly one in spirit and purpose'. Their deep love and appreciation of one another lasted all their days.
Freda was a nurse in British Army Hospitals during the First World War and after her marriage helped at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank.
They had two children: Robert George Everitt 'Bob' Murray and Susan Ann 'Sue' Murray.
Notes from the Obituary Written by Sir Graham Wilson from the Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 1966 Vol 91 P641- 656
...."In the Autumn of 1919 he left the Army and became a Senior Demonstrator in Pathology at St. Bartholomew's. The following year he became a Research Bacteriologist at Cambridge University for the Medical Research Council. After three years he was made a Fellow of Christ's College and in 1926 was appointed lecturer in Pathology at Cambridge University...."
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...."In 1930 he accepted the post of Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a post he held for 25 years." Retired from the Chair of Bacteriology and immunity at McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1955.
..."His great breadth of knowledge and experience was ideal for the task of creating a new department responsible to the Faculty of Medicine for medical bacteriology and immunology, and to the Faculty of Science for undergraduate and post graduate work in the more general field of microbiology".
..."Between 1931 and 1934 Murray created strong programmes of teaching for science and medical undergraduates including his pride and joy - the honours B.Sc course in bacteriology".
During the Second World War his time was largely occupied by committee work. He attended many wartime meetings with Heads of States and Armies that were of a highly secret nature. See "Deadly Allies" by John Brydon.
...."When he returned to McGill at the end of the war he had to reorganise his department. He appreciated new trends in teaching and research and spent a great deal of effort in providing material for post graduate work...."
..."E.G.D. was really in his element during these years, and his influence as a man and a teacher reached it highest level. Many microbiologists in senior positions in Canada and to some extent in the USA are products of those years".
...."He took great pride and interest in the creation of the 'Canadian Journal of Microbiology'. The policy of that paper and its high standards are those of his son, R.G.E. Murray, the first Editor".
..."E.G.D 'a strong personality dominated not only his whole department, but made itself felt in faculty meetings, committees and professional associations. He did not tolerate selfishness or pettiness when principles were involved. and like most great personalities he could, at times, be extremely stubborn and even seemingly or truly unreasonable in his standards. Although an exacting critical teacher or listener at meetings he never was sharp with the young, but offered constructive and helpful suggestions. He could, however, be quite devastatingly critical of what he considered shoddy, careless work or muddled thinking by senior workers".
...."His range of interests was wide and he made friends readily among naturalists, fishermen and literary groups....his loyalty to his friends was absolute, and so was his discretion in personal affairs".
...."The happiest aspect of his life was his family. His wife, Freda, was his constant helper and friend. She shared his interests in every sense and was a part of every group and meeting, much appreciated by all. A wonderful personality in her own right, gracious and with a keen mind, sense of humour and beauty. His son was his great pride and joy and his beloved daughter and seven grandchildren made of his last years a warm and intimate life".
...."He retired from McGill in September 1955 and ended his days as a guest Professor of Medical Research at the University of Western Ontario where his son, 'Bob' was Professor and Head of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology".
...."He had become very influential in bacteriological circles all over North America and it is largely because of this that the International Congress of Microbiology met at Montreal in 1962 with himself as President".
QUOTE FROM THE LONDON FREE PRESS, ONTARIO, CANADA.
...."He was best known, said Dr. W.O. Warwick, Dean of the Western Ontario Medical School, for his identification in 1926 of the organism which causes listeriosis, a rare infection in humans which can lead to meningitis".
QUOTE FROM CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL JANUARY 9 1965
...."He was best known, said Dr. W.O Warwick, Dean of the Western Ontario Medical School, for his identification in 1926 of the organism which causes listeriosis, a rare infection in humans which can cause menengitis."
QUOTE FROM McGILL NEWS. SPRING 1954.
...."E.G.D. is an angler par excellence; he would rather fish than eat, drink or sleep....his first and main live is fly fishing and he is an expert...he ties his own flies with a skill envied by the Montreal professionals....Mrs. Murray shares his angling enthusiasm.... Every summer, if possible, they go off together on a fishing trip by canoe, carrying tent, food and equipment on their backs...E.G.D. is not a husky looking fellow, but he can tote a canoe and pack over a rough trail with the best".
BULLETIN OF POST-GRADUATE ACTIVITIES.An Appreciation. 1955
"With E.D.G. Murray's parting a great colourful personality is leaving our midst.
All of us who have got to know and love him so well appreciate and espect his outspoken criticism because it is at all times sincere and constructive. He loves lively exchange of ideas and will on occasion take a quite extreme position in order to get other people's attitudes an opinions".
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY.
....."He is a scientist by nature and a bacteriologist by profession; he is a fisherman by inclination and a reconteur with few equals". (T.E. Roy - A.A. Miles)
MURRAY - Everitt George Dunne O.B.E., M.A., L.M.S.S.A., M.D., (Honours), Dsc. (Honours) F.R.C.S., Medal of Freedom (United States). Research Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Professor of Bacteriology and Immunity. McGill University of Montreal. Consulting Bateriologist to Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal General Hospital, Children's Memorial Hospital and Alexander Hospital Montreal 1930 -1955. Municipal Councillor of City of Montreal.
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Born Johannesburg 1890, son of Dr. G.E. Murray M.D., F.R.C.S. and Kathleen Dunne, Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Captain R.A. Medical Corps. Member of War Office, Committee for Dysentery 1918, Research Bateriologist Medical Research Council Senior demonstrator pathology at St. Bartholomew's hospital 1919 - 1920, Lecturer in Pathology Cambridge University 1926 - 1930. Member of National Research Council of Canada 1953 - 1956. Member of Judicial Commission of International Association of Microbiologists. President of Montreal Medico-Chirugical Society 1942 -48. Member of National Research Council of Canada and of Department of National Defence. Chairman of Biological Warfare. Committee of Directorate of Chemical Warfare. For this work he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the government of the USA - the highest civilian award given by them. Member of Wartime Prices and Trade Board Parmaceutical Advisory Committee. Flavelle Medal Royal Society of Canada.
EMINENT DR. MURRAY DECEASED.
'The Advertiser' has been informed that Dr. Everitt George Dunne Murray passed away in Montreal, Canada, earlier this year. This information was conveyed in a letter to 'The Advertiser' by Mr. Bernard S. Murray of Bantry Bay, Cape Town.
He writes:
Earlier this year, in Montreal, Canada, there died a very famous doctor, who from his father's side was linked to the well known 'Roode Bloem' Murray family of Graaff-Reinet.
His father, Dr. George Everitt Murray, himself a famous pioneer medico and surgeon of Johannesburg, was the eldest son of the late Walter Murray, founding father of the 'Roode Bloem' Murrays.
The Canadian doctor was the eldest child of the third generation.
Dr. Everitt George Dunne Murray was born in Johannesburg in 1890. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
He was the holder of the O.B.E., M.A., L.M.M.S.A., M.D. (Hon), D.S.C. (Hon), F.R.C.S., and Medal of Freedom, United States.
He was research Professor at the University of West Ontario, Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at McGill University, Montreal and consulting bacteriologist to numerous leading hospitals.
He was also Municipal Councillor in Montreal City.
During the 1914 -18 War he was captain in the RAMG, a member of the War Office Committee on Dysentery, research bacteriologist for the Medical Research Council and Director of the Millbank Laboratory, London.
He was also senior demonstrator in Pathology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital from 1919 - 1920, lecturer in Pathology at Cambridge University from 1926 - 30; member of the National Research Council of Canada from 1953 - 1956; member of the Judicial Commission of the International Association of Microbiologists; a member of the Council of National Defence, Canada; and Chairman of the Biological Warfare Committee. he is also the holder of the Flavelle Medal warded by the Royal Society of Canada, 1958.
The following tribute to his memory appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Prof. Biff (nickname Joburg) Murray - Outspoken enthusiasm and support for good honest work and equally outspoken disapproval of anything shoddy, were characteristics of this great scientist and scholar. These qualities together with the sparkling wit and warm humanity will be sadly missed and long remembered by his friends and colleagues.
His son, Dr. Robert Murray is today Professor and Head of the Department of Bacteriology at the University of West Ontario, Canada.
Graaff-Reinet Advertiser 20.12.1965.
EXTRACT FROM McGILL NEWS SPRING 1954.
His knowledge and love of outdoor life goes back to his boyhood in South Africa, from which he will occasionally tell wonderfully red-blooded tales of adventure in hunting, in scaring off thieving natives, or in coping with drunken miners - tales which gain a certain mythological grandeur from his insistence that he was by far the smallest, weakest, meekest and mildest of the males of his large family. These memories are very precious to him and he rather enjoys being addressed by his nickname of 'Jo'burg', which he acquired in his Cambridge days; but while he may have seemed very conspicuous and the rip roaring days on the Veldt more remote and legendary.
He is very much a family man, and as all his friends know, there is nothing in which he takes more pride and pleasure than int he growing reputation of his son, R.G.E. Murray (M.D., 43;) now Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Western Ontario. Bob will be the first editor of a new Canadian Journal of Microbiology, the official organ of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, and nothing could be more appropriate, since the society itself virtually owes its existence to the enthusiasm and organising ability of the Murrays, father and son. The former was our chief representative at the International microbiological Congress in Rome last summer.
She grew up at Blundeston Hall, educated privately at home, and in 1914 left home to assist the war effort as a nurse's assistant at a hospital in Buxton.
Harriet Winifred Hardwick Woods, "Freda", (my grandmother, known as "Agee" or "Gago" to her grandchildren) was born 29 Apr.1895 in Riverside, California, and bapt. at Lower Machen Church in S.Wales 15 Oct.1895. This was soon after her family had returned from their brief experiment with orange farming in California, and perhaps a year or so before they moved into Blundeston Hall once renovations were complete. She grew up at Blundeston Hall, educated privately at home, and in 1914 left home to assist the war effort as a nurse's assistant at a hospital in Buxton. Her detailed memories of Blundeston Hall and of the history of her family provided a solid starting point for this family history. Widowed since 1964, she only recently (Dec.1986) moved from her house in London Ontario to stay with her daughter Susan in Pointe Claire Quebec. She married, at St.Luke's Church, London, 17 Dec.1917, Everitt George Dunne Murray, O.B.E., F.R.S.C., (known as "Joburg" to his friends and "Opa" to his grandchildren) Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University in Montreal. He was born in Johannesburg South Africa 21 July 1890, and died in London Ontario 6 July 1964.
Before moving to Canada in 1930, they lived at Cambridge where he was a research pathologist at the Medical Research Council and a lecturer at the University. Afterwards, at Mcgill University in Montreal he was professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology until his retirement in 1956. They then settled in London Ontario where he was Visiting Professor of Medical Research at University of Western Ontario. They had two children.
(see MURRAY FAMILY below for their children and descendents)
| 1 | Redcliffe Square Chelsea. Cit. Date: 19 November 1917. |
| 2 | Text From Source: 1917, Marriage solemnized at St Luke's in the Parish of Kensington in the County of Marriage No: London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P84/LUK/007 When Married: 17 Dec 1917 Name and Surname: Everitt George Dunne Murray and Harriet Winifred Hardwick Woods Age: 27 and 23 Condition: Bachelor and Spinster Rank or Profession: Captain R.A.M.C. and - Residence at the time of Marriage: 40 Redcliffe Square, Chelsea and Devonshire Hospital, Buxton Father's Name and Surname: George Alfred Everitt Murray FRCS and Thomas Hardwick Woods Rank or Profession of Father: Medical Practitioner and Consulting Surgeon, Johannesburg Hospital and Captain Late R.G.A. Married in the church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, By Licence by me, Henry R.Anderson, Vicar. This Marriage was solemnized between us, Everitt George Dunne Murray and Harriet Winifred Hardwick Woods in the Presence of us, Thomas Hardwick Woods, Julia Emily Griffiths |
| 3 | G.E.Nicholls, Ancestry Family Trees. Assessment: Secondary evidence. G.E.Nicholls |
| 4 | Text From Source: Census England 1921 Address: 73 Fitzroy Street Place: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England Name,Relation,Age,Sex,Married,Where Born,Nationality,Education,Occupation,Employment,Place of Work,Chd <16,Children's Ages Everitt George Dunne Murray,Head,30y 11m,M,Married,Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa,Resident, British Born,,Research Bacteriologist, (immunology) Registered medical Qualificatiom,The Medical Research Council,The University of Cambridge Field Laboratories, Milton, Cambridge,1,2. Harriet Winifred Hardwick Murray,Wife,26y 2m,F,Married,Riverside County, California, USA,Resident, British Born,,Home duties,,,, Robert George Everitt Murray,Son,2y 1m,M,Both Alive,Ruislip, Middlesex, England,,,,,,, |
| 5 | Text From Source: Census Wales 1901 Address: Hall Farm, Blundeston Place: Mutford, Suffolk, England Name,Relation,Condition,Sex,Age,Occupation,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Infirmity,Language Thomas Hardwick Woods,Head,M,M,37,Gentleman farmer and J.P.,,,Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales,, Florence Emily Rose Woods,Wife,M,F,37,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,, Winifred H Woods,Daughter,S,F,5,,,,USA,, Cecil H Woods,Son,S,M,4,,,,Blundeston, Suffolk,, Lillian Mabel Heard,Visitor,S,F,25,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,, There were three servants - Harriet,25, and April Nunn,15, cook and housemaid, and Thirza Britton, 25, nurse. |
| 6 | Text From Source: Census England 1911 Address: Blundeston Hall Place: Mutford, Suffolk, England Name,Relation,Sex,Age,Married,Years,Chd Born,Chd Living,Chd Died,Occupation,Industry,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Nationality,Infirmity Thomas Hardwick Woods,Head,M,47,M,,,,,J.P. Suffolk,farming, owner,,,Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales,, Florence Emily Rose Woods,Wife,F,47,M,19,3,3,0,,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,, Harriet Winifred Hardwick Woods,Daughter,F,15,S,,,,,,,,,Riverside County, California, USA,, L.Elizabeth H Woods,Daughter,F,10,S,,,,,,,,,,, Lillian Mabel Heard,Sister-in-law,F,35,S,,,,,,,,,Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales,, Ellen Louisa Holmes, 46, was their cook, and Ellen Charlotte Mason, 28, the house parlourmaid. |