donald murray

The Right Honourable Sir Donald Bruce Murray (born January 24, 1923) was a Lord Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, he was educated at Belfast Royal Academy and the Queen's University of Belfast as well as Trinity College Dublin. Called to the Bar in 1945, he that same year became assistant parliamentary draftsman to the Government of Northern Ireland, a post he held until becoming assistant lecturer in Law at Queen's University in 1951. In 1953, Murray was called to the Northern Ireland Bar, and twelve years later he was admitted to the province's Inner Bar, becoming a bencher of the Inn of Court in 1971. Between 1972 and 1975 he chaired the General Council of the Bar of Northern Ireland, and from 1976 to 1984 he was deputy chairman of the country's Boundary Commission. Having been appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland in 1975, Murray was made a judge of the Restrictive Practices Court in 1987, receiving a knighthood the following year. In 1989, he was appointed to the province's Supreme Court, and was admitted to the Privy Council. He retired in 1993, and three years later received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from his alma mater Queen's University. He and Lady Murray, whom he married in 1953, have three grown up children. Murray, Donald Murray, Donald

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