Hubert Leonard Murray
Hubert Leonard Murray | |
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| Administrator of Papua | |
| In office 1940–1942 | |
| Preceded by | Hubert Murray |
| Succeeded by | Basil Morris |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 December 1886 Watsons Bay, New South Wales |
| Died | 10 December 1963 (aged 76) Manly, Australia |
Hubert Leonard Murray CBE (13 December 1886 – 10 December 1963) was an Australian colonial administrator who served as Administrator of Papua between 1940 and 1942
Biography[edit]
Murray was born in Watsons Bay, New South Wales in 1886 to James Aubrey Gibbes Murray and Marian Edith Murray (née Lewis).[1]
The nephew of Hubert Murray, who was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Papua in 1908, Murray also moved to Papua in 1909 to become his uncle's assistant private secretary.[2] He took part in the trials for the Australian Olympic swimming team for the 1912 Summer Olympics, but was narrowly defeated.[2] He was promoted to private secretary in 1913, and married Pauline Anne Schomburgk in February 1915;[1] the couple later had a son.[2] In 1916 he became official secretary in 1916.[2] He subsequently served in the territory's Legislative Council and Executive Council from 1925.[1] In the 1936 New Year Honours he was made a CBE.[3]
Murray was appointed Resident Magistrate in 1940, before succeeding his uncle as Lieutenant Governor later in the year, with the post renamed to "Administrator".[2] He remained in post until the declaration of military rule in February 1942,[1] at which point he moved to Sydney,[4] where he joined the General Headquarters of the Allied Geographical Section.[1]
He died at his home in the Sydney suburb of Manly on 10 December 1963.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Murray, Hubert Leonard (1886–1963) Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ^ a b c d e f Deaths of islands people Pacific Islands Monthly, January 1964, p129
- ^ H. Leonard Murray, C.B.E. Pacific Islands Monthly, January 1936, p74
- ^ Hon. H.L. Murray Pacific Islands Monthly, March 1946, p3
