David King Murray

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Sir Thomas David King Murray, known as David King Murray, Kt KC LLD MA BSc LLB FRSE (1884 - 5 June 1955) was a Scottish politician and judge.

The son of James Murray, Greenknowe, Bothwell, he was educated at Hamilton Academy, Glasgow High School and Glasgow University.

Called to the Scots Bar in 1910 and fought in World War I as a Lieutenant in the RNVR. He resumed his legal practice and was Junior Counsel to the Treasury in Scotland from 1927-1928, Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire at Airdrie from 1928-1933, and Senior Advocate Depute from 1936-1938. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1933.

He was Chairman of the Scottish Land Court (with the judicial title of Lord Murray) from 1938-1941, and Chairman of the Scottish Coalfields Committee from 1942-1944.

He was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1941-1945, and was Unionist Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North from 1943-1945. He was knighted in 1941. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session in 1945, with the judicial title Lord Birnam.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Colville	Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North 1943–1945	Succeeded by Lord John Hope
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Preceded by James Scott Cumberland Reid	Solicitor General for Scotland 1941-1945	Succeeded by Daniel Patterson Blades