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Murray was born in Alford (Aberdeenshire) on 28 September 1864. He became an engineer, emigrated to South Africa in 1888 and worked for a gold-mining company. He was a lieutenant with the Railway Pioneers during the Boer War, then became a South African civil servant and was appointed Secretary of Public Works in 1912. He received the honour of CMG in 1922 and retired to Scotland in 1924. He died in Banchory (Kincardineshire) on 12 April 1941. He wrote north-east dialect poetry while in South Africa, for which he became greatly admired. He is particularly remembered for the collection "Hamewith".
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A Handful of Heather (1893); Hamewith (1900); A Sough o' War (1917); In the Country Places (1920); Hamewith and Other Poems: Collected Editions (1927); The Last Poems (1969); The Complete Poems (ed. Nan Shepherd, 1979).
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