Painter, etcher, illustrator, teacher and administrator, born in London, brother of the writer John Middleton Murry. Unsuited to printing for which he was initially trained, Richard Murry was encouraged by his brother and his sister-in-law the writer Katherine Mansfield to attend the Central School of Arts & Crafts, which he entered in 1922 with a London County Council scholarship, to study book production. Then he attended the Slade School of Art, where he gained a Robert Ross Scholarship in 1925. He was associated with the obscure Stanhope Street Group in the 1920's and also acted as Secretary of the New English Art Club for three years and in 1928 became assistant art master at the Architectural Association. He left in 1930 to teach at Surbiton Grammar School for eight years. Murry was then offered the position of librarian at the Central, where he stayed - apart from service in the Royal Marines and Royal Naval Film Unit - until retirement in 1967. He was also for many years secretary of the Art Workers’ Guild, from 1962. Murry showed at Goupil Gallery, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and Leger Galleries, London Group, New English Art Club, National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers, Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Institute of Oil Painters. A posthumous exhibition was held at Sally Hunter Fine Art, 1988. A competent portrait painter, examples of his works are held in the collections of the Ashmolean, Manchester City Art Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and Kirklees Museums and Galleries.

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^{Biography from Liss Llewellyn}