Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven

Keith Anderson Hope Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven, of Newhaven in the County and City of Edinburgh Kt KCB (* July 28, 1903, † 10 October 1993) was a British agricultural scientist and university teacher who in 1964 as a Life Peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Studies, career and Rector of Lincoln College

Murray graduated after attending the Edinburgh Academy to study agricultural science at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1925 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Agriculture). After a subsequent activity in the Ministry of Agriculture, he completed with financial support from a grant from the Commonwealth Fund 1926-1929 postgraduate studies at Cornell University, he with a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) with a thesis on Some Aspects ended of the Supply and Prices of Meat in Great Britain.

After his return to Britain Murray was 1929-1932 Assistant at Oriel College, 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 to work as a Fellow and Treasurer ( Bursar ) at Lincoln College, Oxford University and has held both functions until 1953. During this time he was in World War II from 1939 to 1940 also employees in the Ministry of Food (Ministry of Food) and was between 1941 and 1942, the volunteer reserve at the Royal Air Force. Thereafter he served between 1942 and 1945 as Director of Food and Agriculture Supply Center of the headquarters in the Middle East.

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

House of Lords member

After completing his work as rector of Lincoln College Murray in 1953 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler as Chairman of the Committee for University grants ( University Grants Committee) appointed and held this position for ten years to 1963 from. During this time he was defeated in 1955 Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir". He also led in 1957 at the request of the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies a study of the University System of Australia by 1963 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

By Letters Patent of September 17, 1964 Murray was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Murray of Newhaven, Newhaven in the County of and City of Edinburgh due to Life peerages Act 1958 in the peerage, and was thus until his death in the House of Lords as a member. In addition, he was awarded the University of Liverpool in 1964 an honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon. LL.D. ).

Baron Murray held 1964-1974, the Office of the Chancellor of the University of Southampton and was nigh 1966-1969 Vice President of Wellington College in Berkshire, as well as 1967-1970 Honorary President of the National Union of Students NUS ( National Union of Students ). In addition, he served from 1968 to 1978 the function of a supervisor ( Visitor ) Loughborough University of Technology and received in 1968 from the University of Stirling an honorary doctorate in developmental aid and foreign policy.

In 1970, Baron Murray Chairman of the Commission to Investigate the Administration of the University and put upon completion of the investigation in 1972 named after him Murray Report which, among other things, the consolidation of various departments of the University proposed, such as the 1985 implemented merger of Royal Holloway College with the Bedford College for 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 in 1931
  • Clippings on the currency question in England, co-author of 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 Society statisitical, 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
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