John Murray (priest)

John Gabriel Murray (1901–1973) 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 Bishops' 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]

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