John Rose Murray (19 December 1898 - 2 May 1991) was a Ceylonese accountant and politician in Colonial Ceylon.
[1] John Rose Murray was born on 19 December 1898 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, the youngest of four children of John Rose Murray, engine fitter, and Helen née McLeod, domestic servant.
A chartered accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, he was appointed as a member of House of Representatives of Ceylon on 6 June 1952,[2] serving until his resignation in March 1958.
[3] Murray was the Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on several occasions between 1950 and 1955.
[4] He died on 2 May 1991 at Taunton Deane, Somerset, and he was buried in Comely Bank Cemetery, Edinburgh.