Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin

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Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin, Template:Postnominals (21 November 1849 – 21 August 1942) was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1903 and 1905, as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session between 1905 and 1913 and as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary between 1913 and 1932.

Background and education

Murray was the son of Thomas Graham Murray WS LLD (1816-1891) and Caroline Jane Tod, daughter of John Tod.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". His father and grandfather were solicitors, and founding partners of the Edinburgh firm Tods Murray & Jamieson.[1] He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]

Political and legal career, 1891–1905

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7 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh (right)

Murray was called to the Scottish Bar in 1874 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1891.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The latter year he was also elected Member of Parliament for Bute,[3] a seat he held until 1905,[4] and appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in Lord Salisbury's Conservative administration. The Conservatives lost power in 1892 but when they returned to office in 1895 under Salisbury, Murray was once again made Solicitor-General for Scotland.

In 1896, he was promoted to Lord Advocate and sworn of the Privy Council.[5] He remained as Lord Advocate when Arthur Balfour became Prime Minister in 1902, but the following year he succeeded Lord Balfour of Burleigh as Secretary for Scotland,[6] with a seat in the cabinet.

In 1900, he was living at 7 Rothesay Terrace in Edinburgh's fashionable West End.[7]

Judicial career, 1905–1932

Murray left the government and parliament in February 1905, on being appointed Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He was raised to the peerage as Baron Dunedin, of Stenton in the County of Perth, on 9 March 1905.[8] He held these posts until 1913, when he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

During his tenure as a Law Lord he gave long majority judgments in cases including Metropolitan Water Board v Dick Kerr & Co Ltd[9] concerning frustration and Tredegar v. Harwood[10] concerning a landlord's liability to insure premises, Ellerman Lines Ltd v Murray[11] on employment law and excessive reliance on a preamble or draft international instrument, Sorrel v Smith[12] concerning the tort of conspiracy to interfere with a trade or calling, Leyland Shipping Co Ltd v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd[13] on causation in tort, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v New Garage & Motor Co Ltd[14] on penalty clauses and Plumb v Cobden Flour Mills Co Ltd[15] on employer's liability. In 1923 he was chairman of the Political Honours Review Committee. He retired as a Law Lord in 1932.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Apart from his legal and political career, Lord Dunedin was Sheriff of Perthshire between 1890 and 1891 and Lord Lieutenant of Buteshire between 1901 and 1905.[16] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1908[17] and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1922.[18] In 1926 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Dunedin, of Stenton in the County of Perth.[19]

Family

Lord Dunedin was twice married. He married firstly Mary Clementina, daughter of Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet, in 1874. They had one son and two daughters. After Mary's death in December 1922 he married secondly Jean Elmslie Henderson Findlay, secretary of the Scottish War Savings Committee in WW1, and daughter of George Findlay, in 1923. They had no children. His only son the Hon. Ronald Thomas Graham Murray (1875–1934) was a major in the Black Watch and fought in the First World War. However, he died married but childless in September 1934, aged 59, predeceasing his father by eight years. Lord Dunedin died in August 1942, aged 92. As he had no surviving male issue both his titles became extinct on his death.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

References

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Notes

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  7. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1900-01
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
  9. ↑ [1918] AC 119
  10. ↑ [1929] A.C. 72
  11. ↑ [1931] A.C. 126
  12. ↑ [1925] A.C. 700
  13. ↑ [1918] A.C. 350
  14. ↑ [1915] A.C. 79
  15. ↑ [1914] A.C. 62
  16. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
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Sources
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  • Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)

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