Andrew Howson Murray (1905-1997)
April 21, 1905 - February 4, 1997
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This photograph was taken circa 1968
Biographical Highlights
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b. April 21, 1905 (Malawi) d. Cape Town, SA, Feb. 4 [11?], 1997
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grandson of the Scots Calvinist preacher Andrew Murray
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MA Stellenbosch, with distinction
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Rhodes Scholarship 1926?
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B Litt, D Phil Oxford
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1st marriage to Violet Wetherell [sp?] (d. 1949); 2d marriage to Mary (d.
1994)
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1931 lecturer, University of Witwatersrand
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1937-1970 Professor, University of Cape Town; taught political philosophy
“because nobody else could”
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1957, led "expert" evidence for the State in a number of political trials
in South Africa--the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 and the Glenn Moss trial
of 1976.
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member of (South African) Publications Control Board
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d. 1997, February 4
Books amd major publications:
Letters
Bibliography - Secondary Materials
Photographs
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