Sarwar Murshid was born on 1 July 1924 in his maternal home, the Munsef Bari of Comilla in Tipperah District, Bengal Province.

He later moved to the United Kingdom to study at the University of Nottingham, receiving his Master of Arts in English Language and Literature in 1948.

[2] As a diplomat, he served as the Bangladeshi high commissioner to Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, and he was appointed Assistant Secretary General to the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1978.

[1] and has set up the Mrs Noor Jehan and Prof Khan Sarwar Murshid Trust Fund with the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

The inaugural lecture by eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain focused on Dhaka University and its role in shaping Bangladesh Society and was delivered on Tuesday 20 December 2016.

[6] He was given the guard of honor at Central Shaheed Minar for his contribution to the liberation war of Bangladesh as a freedom-fighter[7] and buried at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.