Five generations of the family are descended from two Scottish immigrants to Australia: the Reverend James Murdoch, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and his wife Helen, nee Garden.
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17 Facts About Murdoch family
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is known for being one of the founders and the owner of formerly the world's largest media company News Corporation, a company that was spun-off in mid 2013 splitting its entertainment assets to 21st Century Fox and its media publishing assets to form the new News Corp.
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Murdoch family was ordained at Cruden, Aberdeenshire, where he married Annie Brown.
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Murdoch family was prominent there as a Presbyterian minister and published several books on theology.
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Nora Curle Smith, nee Murdoch family, was born in Pitsligo and married David Curle Smith.
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Sir Walter Murdoch family, who was born at Rosehearty, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist.
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Murdoch family published his first essay, "The new school of Australian poets", in 1899 and for many years he wrote a weekly column titled "Books and Men" for the Melbourne Argus.
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Collections of Walter Murdoch family's writings were published in book form from the 1930s onward.
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Violet Murdoch family died in 1952 and 10 years later Murdoch family remarried, to Barbara Marshall Cameron.
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Keith Arthur Murdoch family, later Sir Keith Murdoch family, was born in West Melbourne and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell.
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Murdoch family became prominent as a journalist, while serving as a war correspondent during World War I In 1921, Murdoch was appointed chief editor of the Melbourne Herald and in 1928 became managing director of its parent company, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd.
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Murdoch family made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio Express-News.
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Murdoch family bought a major stake in 20th Century Fox in 1984, which became the basis of a new US free to air television network, Fox Broadcasting Company.
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Prue Murdoch family was born on in Adelaide and has held directorial roles within the News Corporation empire.
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Elisabeth Murdoch family was born on in Sydney, and is a media executive and company director and has been married twice.
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James Murdoch family was born on in London, and is a media executive and company director.
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