William Harvey Murray

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = William Harvey Murray

| birth_name = William Harvey Murray

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|9|2}}

| birth_place = Wallyford, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|7|7|1916|9|2}}

| death_place = Victoria, British Columbia

| constituency_AM = Prince Rupert

| assembly = British Columbia Legislative

| term_start = September 19, 1956

| term_end = July 18, 1972

| predecessor = Arthur Bruce Brown

| successor = Graham Lea

| party = BC Social Credit

| spouse = Gwyneth Margaret Walker

}}

William Harvey Murray (September 2, 1916 – July 7, 1991) was a Canadian politician who served a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia representing the riding of Prince Rupert from 1956 to 1972 as a member of the Social Credit Party.

He was born in Wallyford, a community on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Robert Kirkwood Murray and Agnes Gordon Harvey. Murray was a clerk with the British Columbia Forest Service, owned and managed the Crest Hotel in Prince Rupert and also worked as an accountant. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. In 1946, he married Gwyneth Margaret Walker. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the British Columbia assembly in 1953. Murray was speaker for the British Columbia assembly from 1964 to 1972.{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Companion, 1961 |year=1961 |last=Normandin |first=P. G}} He was defeated by Graham Lea when he ran for reelection in 1972.{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf |title=Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 |publisher=Elections BC |accessdate=2011-07-27}}

He died in 1991 of lung cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=15b98614-a56e-46a3-b300-805665d87640 |title=Medical Certificate of Death |access-date=2013-11-16 |archive-date=2015-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610213137/http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=15b98614-a56e-46a3-b300-805665d87640 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=436db512-a7ce-4acd-bcd8-15e94cd38b8b |title=Registration of Death |access-date=2013-11-16 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064046/http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=436db512-a7ce-4acd-bcd8-15e94cd38b8b |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.leg.bc.ca/35th1st/misc/thronesp.txt |title=Opening Speech of The Honourable David C. Lam |date=March 17, 1992 |accessdate=2012-02-10}}