John Murray (priest)

John Gabriel Murray was an Anglican priest^[1] in the mid 20th century.

He was born in 1901^[2] and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3] He was ordained after a period of study at Bishop’s College Cheshunt^[4] in 1925. His first posts were curacies at St Mark’s Regent's Park^[5] and St Gabriel, Pimlico^[6] after which he was Perpetual Curate at All Saints, Hampton.^[7] He was then Vicar of St Francis,^[8] Isleworth^[9] before becoming Provost^[10] of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow.^[11] In 1944^[12] he became Vicar of St Mary’s, Hendon^[13] and then in 1952 of St Mary the Virgin, Eynesbury.^[14] From 1959 to 1970 he was at All Saint’s Glencarse.^[15] He retired to Pittenweem and died in 1973.^[16]

References

1. The History of Scottish Episcopal Church
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1971–72 OUP, Oxford, 1973 ISBN 0104884185
3. "TRinity College Register of Members, 1929" Cambridge, Trinity College, 1929
4. Photo of College
5. Church web-site (1)
6. Church web-site (2)
7. Church web-site (3)
8. Church web-site (4)
9. Preaches at the Church Lads Brigade Annual service of thanksgiving > The Times, Monday, 25 Oct 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47824; col D Ecclesiastical News
10. St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow
11. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
12. The Times, Saturday, 11 Mar 1944; pg. 6; Issue 49802; col C Ecclesiastical News
13. Church web-site (5)
14. Church web-site (6)
15. Church website (7)
16. East Neuk Records Office Record Number414/00 0015