John Murray (geographer)

Dr John Murray FRSE (1883–1940) was a Scottish geographer and educator.

His career began as an English teacher at Perth Academy.

He then moved to teach English at Dumfries Academy; In the First World War he served as an instructor at the Royal Garrison Artillery, instructing in Musketry and lecturing in War Aims and Military History.

In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

His proposers were James Drever, Shepherd Dawson, Alexander Watters and Sir Godfrey Thomson.