Sir Alexander Robertson Murray KCIE CBE (29 November 1872 – 19 March 1956) was a former President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce.
[1] A native of Elgin, he commenced his business career in the town clerk's office at Montrose, coming to Dundee some years later, when he entered the service of Messrs Andrew Hendry & Sons, solicitors, although he did not actually become articled to the legal profession.
[2] The son of a Scottish railway official, as a young accountant he went out to Calcutta, working his way up to become head of two firms based in Clive Street, then the bastion of English mercantile trade in imperial Calcutta, Thomas Duff and Co., and Jardine, Skinner and Co.
He represented employers of at International Labour Conferences: 1919 in Washington, D.C. and 1924 in Geneva.
Tragically Captain Murray was to die later that year whilst serving with his regiment, probably in Normandy.