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Jack Keith Murray

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Murray was appointed Administrator of the Australian Territories in Papua and New Guinea from 1945 to 1952, and was knighted in 1978, for his contribution to the development of PNG as it moved toward independence. He returned to the University in 1953, and worked steadily on the project that created
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in 1940, managed staff training for Northern Command, and rose to the rank of colonel in charge of AIF training depots. He became Chief Instructor of the Land Headquarters School of Civil Affairs at
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in France from 1918 to 1919. While in Europe, Murray took leave to study dairy science at an agricultural college in Scotland, and visited the United States before returning to Australia.
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In recognition of his commitment to Gatton and education, his name was given to the J.K. Murray Library at UQ Gatton. His papers are held at the University of Queensland
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in 1923. He married Evelyn Andrews in 1924, a fellow University of Sydney graduate, before being appointed as the first Professor of Agriculture at the
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in 1959. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science in 1967, became Emeritus Professor in 1975, and was advanced to
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in 1916 and was discharged a year later. He re-enlisted later that year and served with the
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and was a member of the University Union House Committee which oversaw the
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Murray was appointed a lecturer in dairy bacteriology and technology at
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in 1936. He was also a member of the Queensland State Committee of
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is a courtesy title retained for life for a former administrator.
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in 1908, and after serving two years as an agricultural cadet at
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Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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was a prefix title given to Jack Murray upon his status as an
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with him, working to find the fees to pay his attendance at
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University of Queensland Fryer Library (14 February 2014).
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Members of the Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea
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Jack Keith Murray was born on 8 February 1889 in Middle
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Her full name was, Evelyn Ernestine Pritchard Andrews.
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People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
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Jinks, Brian. "Murray, Sir Jack Keith (1889–1979)".
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Jinks, Brian. "Murray, Sir Jack Keith (1889–1979)".
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Index

Colonel
His Honour
KBE
ED

Administrator of Papua and New Guinea
George VI
Elizabeth II
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
William McKell
Ben Chifley
Robert Menzies
Basil Morris
Donald Cleland
Middle Brighton
Colony of Victoria
Brisbane
Queensland
West Chapel
Mount Gravatt
British
Australian
Australia
St Joseph's College
Hunters Hill
Alma mater
University of Queensland
ScD
Hawkesbury Agricultural College
University of Sydney

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