James Dalton Murray CMG (6 March 1911 – 4 June 1984)[1] was a British diplomat[2] who ended his career as High Commissioner to Jamaica with additional responsibility for Haiti.
[3] Murray was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Stowe School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
In 1943 he joined the Office of the Commissioner-General for South East Asia in Singapore.
Subsequently, Murray was Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi; Counsellor in Lisbon; and Minister to Romania.
He was British High Commissioner in Jamaica from 1965 to 1970; and non-resident Ambassador to Haiti from 1966 to 1970, and resident First Secretary and Consul from 1970 to 1976.