John Murray Sources for this person
1837 – 1917
Born15 August 1837 in Mauchline, Ayrshire, ScotlandDied18 November 1917 in Longreach, Queensland, Australia, aged 80
Arrived on the Victorian goldfields about 1852. From 1862 he and his brothers Thomas and Campbell shipped live cattle from Twofold Bay and Newcastle to New Zealand until that trade was banned in 1864. He reached Rockhampton about December 1864 and in 1869-71 selected almost 2000 acres of the Rockhampton agricultural reserve as his property Fitzroy Park, growing sugar-cane there from 1872 and helping found the Pandora Sugar Co. Ltd in 1880. After leaving parliament he returned to pastoralism, eventually holding eight pastoral leases, and in 1911 purchased Beaconsfield East and West stations at Ilfracombe.