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

Biography

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1866–1868 4th Waikouaiti Independent

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "William Murison". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  2. ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 97. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
  3. ^ a b "Death of Mr. W. D. Murison". Otago Daily Times (4951): 3. 29 December 1877. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  4. ^ William Murison, CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 November 2023. (subscription required)
  5. ^ "Waikouaiti Election". Otago Witness. No. 744. 3 March 1866. p. 8. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  6. ^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 222. OCLC 154283103.


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