[1] He was born at Mill Hill in north London and died at Grasmere in Cumbria.
Murray was educated at St George's School, Harpenden, and Wadham College, Oxford; while at Oxford, he played in trial matches for the university cricket team but was not selected for any first-class matches.
When the Oxford summer term was over in 1922, he started playing for Warwickshire as a right-handed middle-order batsman and scored 33 in his first innings in the game against Surrey.
[3] In 17 innings in 1922 for Warwickshire, he scored only 161 runs and he did not play first-class cricket again.
[1] Murray had more success at Oxford as a golfer and won a Blue in both 1922 and 1923 by playing in the golf match against Cambridge University.