William Murison Explained

William Dick Murison (24 February 1837 – 28 December 1877)[1] was a 19th-century New Zealand Member of Parliament, journalist and cricketer.

Biography

Murison was born in Alyth in Perthshire, Scotland in 1837 and educated at Royal High School in Edinburgh[2] before emigrating to Otago in New Zealand in 1856.[3] He played three first-class cricket matches for Otago between the 1864–65 and 1866–67 seasons, scoring a total of 29 runs in the first three first-class matches to be played in New Zealand.[1] [4]

He represented the Waikouaiti electorate from 1866, when he narrowly defeated Julius Vogel,[5] to 1868, when he resigned.[6] From 1871 until his death in 1877, he was editor of the Otago Daily Times.

He died on 28 December 1877 in Dunedin, aged 40.[1] He left a wife and five children.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: William Murison. ESPNcricinfo. 17 September 2011.
  2. McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 97. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  3. Death of Mr. W. D. Murison. Otago Daily Times. 29 December 1877. 4951. 3. 23 July 2017.
  4. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22549/22549.html William Murison
  5. News: Waikouaiti Election . 8 January 2017 . . 744 . 3 March 1866 . 8.
  6. Book: Wilson, James Oakley . New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 . 4 . First ed. published 1913 . 1985 . V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer . Wellington . 154283103 . 222 .

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