Ronald King Murray, Lord Murray
Ronald King Murray, Lord Murray,
Life
Educated at
He was an unsuccessful candidate for Caithness and Sutherland in 1959, Edinburgh North in a May 1960 by-election, and Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1964 and 1965. He was elected and sat for Edinburgh Leith from 1970 until 1979.
He served as
In April 1977, the Young Liberals' annual conference unanimously passed a motion to call on the Liberal leader (David Steel) to move for the impeachment of Murray for allegedly mishandling a murder case. Despite the urgings of the then chairman of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, Steel did not table such a motion in the House of Commons, but Murray agreed that the Commons still have the right to initiate an impeachment motion.
Lord Murray was an active supporter of the World Court Project U.K., part of a worldwide network directed to obtaining a decision on the legality of using nuclear weapons. Success came in 1996, when the International Court of Justice ruled, in an advisory opinion, that the use of such weapons and the threat to use them would generally be illegal as contrary to international humanitarian law.
He died on 27 September 2016 at the age of 94.[3]
Family
He was nephew of David King Murray, Lord Birnam[4]
References
- ^ "Labour Choice For North Edinburgh". The Times. No. 54740. London, England. 7 April 1960. p. 7. Retrieved 12 June 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Lord Birnam". The Times. No. 53240. London, England. 7 June 1955. p. 8. Retrieved 10 June 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ Ronald J.K Lord Murray : Obituary
- ^ "Obituary: Lord Ronald King Murray, politician and lawyer | The Scotsman".