Murray, Hamish Laurie, son of Harry Leonard Murray, tea planter, of Nugagalla, Sri Lanka, and Alison Katherine Lee, d. of Thomas Cameron Temple FRCS, of Shefford, Beds; b. 22 July 1929; adm. Sept. 1945 (G); left July 1947; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1949, BA 1952, MA 1956; Bombay Co. Ltd. 1952-5; asst. sec. Brit. Aluminium Co. Quebec, Canada 1955-63; man. ITADCO divn. of Aerojet-General Corpn., Washington DC, USA, 1963-5; dir. and gen. man. Carter-Wallace (Pakistan) Ltd. Karachi 1967-74; budget specialist (Education and Labor Committee) US House of Representatives 1975, afterwards dir., House Information, House of Representatives, retd. 1994; m. 15 Apr. 1965 Catharine Jane, d. of Ray Fletcher Farquharson MBE, Prof. of Medicine, Univ. of Toronto, Canada; d. 5 June 2003.