Edward Murray (colonial administrator)

Edward Murray (c. 1800 - 9 June 1874) was the Registrar of Slaves and later Marshal of the Island of Trinidad in the 19th century.

Edward Murray was born around 1800, the son of Henry Murray who occupied a number of public offices in Trinidad.[1] He succeeded his father as a slave registrar.[2][3][4] His youngest son was the obstetrician Gustavus Murray (1831-1887) who practiced in London[5] and who was the inspiration of The Doctor (painting) by Luke Fildes in 1891.[6] Murray was appointed Registrar of Slaves in 1821 after having deputised for his father who had also been registrar.[1] In April 1851 he was made Marshal of the Island of Trinidad.[7] Murray died in Port of Spain on 9 June 1874 at the age of seventy four.[8]

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References
  1. Titus, Noel F. (2009). The Amelioration and Abolition of Slavery in Trinidad, 1812-1834: Experiments and Protests in a New Slave Colony. Bloomington: AuthorHouse. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-4389-8555-8.
  2. Pocock, Michael Rogers (1993). Out of the Shadows of the Past: The Story of the "Great House" of Champs Elysées, Maraval, and an Account of the Lives and Times of the Families who Lived in It, 1780-1932. Michael Rogers Pocock. pp. 311–314. ISBN 9780952224006.
  3. Titus, Noel (2009). The Amelioration and Abolition of Slavery in Trinidad, 1812-1834: Experiments and Protests in a New Slave Colony. AuthorHouse. pp. 30–32. ISBN 978-1-4389-8555-8.
  4. John, A. Meredith (1988). "3. The Slave Registration Order". The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816: A Mathematical and Demographic Enquiry. Cambridge University Press. pp. 21–29. ISBN 978-0-521-36166-8.
  5. "Obituary. Gustavus Charles Philip Murray, M.D." The Lancet, 20 August 1887, p. 394.
  6. Shankar, P. Ravi; Morgan, Huw (March 2012). "Medicine and the arts. The doctor by Luke Fildes. Commentary". Academic Medicine. 87 (3): 332–333. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e318244bdab. ISSN 1938-808X. PMID 22373628.
  7. "Gazette Promotions", The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 189 (1851), p. 543.
  8. "General News", The Bradford Observer, 24 July 1874, p. 4.


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