British barrister (born 1974)
Simon Peregrine Gauvain Murray, Baron Murray of Blidworth (born 2 August 1974), is a British barrister [ 1] Conservative member of the House of Lords .[ 2] minister for the Home Office (2022–2023).[ 3]
Early life and education
The only son of Dr Nigel Ormiston Gauvain Murray (1944–2002) and his wife Shirley née Arbuthnot (born 1949), elder daughter and co-heiress of Commander Bernard Arbuthnot DSC [ 4] Arbuthnot baronets , his matrilineal great-great-grandfather , Sir Henry Blake GCMG Governor of Hong Kong who hailed from the Anglo-Irish gentry being seated at Myrtle Grove , County Cork .[ 5] [ 6] Scots patrilineal descent , his grandfather was Dr Ronald Murray MBE FRCPE [ 7] kinsman of the Duke of Atholl .
After graduating from the University of St Andrews with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons), Murray was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 2000.[ 8] public law at 39 Essex Chambers.[ 1]
In 2011 he appeared on the BBC show , Fake or Fortune? Children Under a Palm Winslow Homer , which had been found by a skip over 23 years earlier;[ 9] work of art is still a matter of dispute.
Political career
Elected to Gedling Borough Council at the 2019 local elections , Murray represented Newstead Abbey Ward as a Conservative Councillor until November 2022 after being appointed to HMG .[ 10]
Appointed Minister of State for the Home Office [ 11] Prime Minister Liz Truss on 9 October 2022,[ 12] Life Peer on 21 October 2022, taking the title of Baron Murray of Blidworth , of Blidworth in the County of Nottinghamshire .[ 13]
Lord Murray made his maiden speech in the Upper House on 26 October 2022 during a debate on British Passports for those born the Republic of Ireland but living in Northern Ireland,[ 14] Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary from 30 October 2022 until 14 November 2023.[ 15]
Personal life
Murray married Amelia May Beaumont (born 1983), a granddaughter of the Revd Baron Beaumont of Whitley and great-granddaughter of Lady May Abel Smith ,[ 16] Temple Church London , on 4 October 2007.
Lord and Lady Murray have two children.[ 17]
A Freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners ,[ 18] member of MCC and since 2002 serves on the ceremonial staff as an Esquire of the Order of St John .[ 19]
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