William Murison
{{short description|New Zealand politician and cricketer}}
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William Dick Murison (24 February 1837 – 28 December 1877){{cite web|title=William Murison|url= http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37984.html |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=17 September 2011}} was a 19th-century New Zealand Member of Parliament, journalist and cricketer.
Biography
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Murison was born in Alyth in Perthshire, Scotland in 1837 and educated at Royal High School in EdinburghMcCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 97. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) before emigrating to Otago in New Zealand in 1856.{{cite journal|title=Death of Mr. W. D. Murison|journal=Otago Daily Times |date=29 December 1877|issue=4951|page= 3|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18771229.2.17|access-date=23 July 2017}} 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.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22549/22549.html William Murison], CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 November 2023. {{subscription required}}
He represented the Waikouaiti electorate from 1866, when he narrowly defeated Julius Vogel,{{cite news |title=Waikouaiti Election |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18660303.2.18 |access-date=8 January 2017 |work=Otago Witness |issue=744 |date=3 March 1866 |page=8}} to 1868, when he resigned.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page=222 }} 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. He left a wife and five children.
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