Murray, Rosemary (1913–2004)
Murray, Rosemary (1913–2004)
English chemist and educator. Name variations: Dame Rosemary Murray. Born Alice Rosemary Murray, July 28, 1913, in Newbury, England; died Oct 8, 2004; dau. of Admiral A.J.L. Murray and Ellen Maxwell Spooner; granddau. of William A. Spooner (New College Oxford warden and spoonerism namesake); Oxford University, BS, 1934, PhD in chemistry, 1939.
Joined the Women's Royal Navy Service (1942–46); at Girton College, Cambridge, served as a lecturer (1946–54), as a fellow (1949) and as a tutor (1951); demonstrated in chemistry at Cambridge University (1947–52); served as the 1st president of New Hall, Cambridge (1964–81) and the 1st woman vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (1975–77); appointed to numerous leadership positions, including director of Midland Bank (1978–84), city of Cambridge justice of the peace (1953–83), Cambridgeshire deputy lieutenant (from 1982), Lockwood Committee for Higher Education (Northern Ireland) member and the sole woman member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (1972–84); wrote New Hall, 1954–1972: The Making of a College (1980). Made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE, 1977).