Rosemary Murray was instrumental in establishing New Hall, Cambridge, now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and was the first woman to hold the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
15 Facts About Rosemary Murray
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Rosemary Murray was born in Havant, Hampshire, the eldest of six children born to Admiral Arthur John Layard Murray and Ellen Maxwell Spooner, daughter of William Archibald Spooner, Warden of New College, Oxford.
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Rosemary Murray went on to hold teaching positions at the Royal Holloway College, the University of Sheffield and Cambridge.
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Rosemary Murray worked at Chatham barracks as chief officer directing demobilisation.
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Rosemary Murray was stationed at Base One Europe as WRNS Chief Officer and responsible for the welfare of 5,600 Wrens stationed at Londonderry.
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In 1946, the mistress of Girton College invited Rosemary Murray to apply for a job at Cambridge.
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Rosemary Murray served as the first president of New Hall from its founding in 1954 until 1981.
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Rosemary Murray was a magistrate in Cambridge for 30 years, from 1953 to 1983, and was the first female deputy lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 1982.
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Rosemary Murray was president of the National Association of Adult Education from 1977 to 1980.
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Rosemary Murray was a member of the Committee on Higher Education in Northern Ireland chaired by Sir John Lockwood, which recommended the closure of Magee College as well as the location of Northern Ireland's 2nd University being Coleraine and led to the controversial creation of the New University of Ulster, from which she was later awarded a Doctor of Science Honorary Degree.
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Rosemary Murray was a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body.
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Rosemary Murray was a director of Midland Bank Ltd, and an independent director of The Observer.
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Dame Rosemary Murray was the first woman to serve as the following:.
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Rosemary Murray died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on 7 October 2004, aged 91.
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Rosemary Murray had an operation to replace a heart valve, which was a dangerous procedure for a woman of 91 years.