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Americas, Murray was able to increase production from 140,000 tons in 1922 to
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Murray was a prize-winning student at several short-lived private schools: Colac
Grammar School 1890, Manifold House Ladies' School (with his sister Ilma) 1891, before matriculating from Colac College 1895. He entered the University of Melbourne in 1896, and graduated Bachelor of Civil Engineering
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Elizabeth Murray née Young (1823–1892), "founders" of Colac. Andrew S. Murray was reputedly the first white child born in the area, though that honour may belong to the unrelated Margaret Twiss, née Murray (30 or 31 May 1843 – 1 January
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Vivienne "Viva" Douglas ( – 19 June 1945) sometime around 15 November 1905. She was the fourth daughter of Arthur Cunningham Douglas (1840 – 5 February 1888), at one time postmaster general of Hobart, and his wife Susan Elizabeth Douglas, née Tapfield. Their three sons and two
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He joined the Mount Lyell company as a junior engineer in 1900, and became engineer in charge of mines following the death of W. T. Batchelor on 27 October 1906. Every stage in his rise in the
Company was resisted by general manager
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Hugh Mervyn Murray (6 September 1906 – ) engaged to Nora Nel Scott-Power in 1942. He was manager of the flotation mill in 1935, general superintendent at Mount Lyell Mines in 1945, appointed general manager
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Welfare Association from its inception, was a sister of Kathleen Louisa Douglas, who married
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in 1877, elder son of Andrew
Strachan Murray (c. 1847 – 10? 19? August 1930) and Florence Eleanor Murray, née Blunden.
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for 22 years. Unusually for a mining man, his entire career of 44 years was spent at one location and for one company.
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The Lost Province : exploration, isolation, innovation and domination in the Mount Lyell Region 1859-1935
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199:(1841–1918), also of Margery Lenore Douglas (3 Nov 1886 – 1976) who married Capt.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography: Murray, Russell Mervyn (1877–1945)
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awarded 34 medals to the rescuers, including a silver medal to Murray.
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Marjory Murray ( – ) Conservatorium of Music, East Melbourne in 1931
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