Early Life
Murray was born at Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, to Scottish parents - Robert Murray, accountant, and Elizabeth Macfarlane - who had emigrated 7 years earlier. He returned to Scotland as a child, and was educated at Stirling High School and the University of Edinburgh (1864-5), but soon left to join a whaling expedition to Spitsbergen as ships' surgeon in 1868.
He returned to Edinburgh to complete his studies (1868–72) in geology under Sir Archibald Geikie and natural philosophy under Peter Guthrie Tait.
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