John Murray (judge)

[1] Murray was born in Stellenbosch in what was then known as the Cape Colony, scion of an old and prominent South African family.

In 1916 he married Fanny Izobel Eugene Booysen, a fellow student at Victoria College.

In 1955, he accepted an offer from the neighbouring territory of Southern Rhodesia to become its Chief Justice; he took office on 1 August that year.

On 9 March 1961, which was his seventy-third birthday, he stepped down and was replaced by Sir Hugh Beadle.

Murray retired to Plettenberg Bay, Cape Province, where he died at the age of 88 on 10 May 1976.