Iain Murray (author) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Early life== Iain Murray was born on 19 April 1931.<ref name=Ninety>{{cite web |title=Iain Murray: Ninety Today |url=https://www.presbyterianseminary.org.uk/post/iain-murray-ninety-today |publisher=Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary |access-date=19 April 2021 |date=19 April 2021}}</ref> He was educated in the [[Isle of Man]] at [[King William's College]]. Murray was converted in 1949.<ref name=Ninety /> In the summer of 1950 he was commissioned in the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)]]<ref name=MonergBio>{{cite web|title= Iain Murray |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |type= biography |website= Monergism.com |publisher= Christian Publication Resource Foundation |location= [[Portland, Oregon]] |url= https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/iainmurray.html}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39063 |date=10 November 1950 |page=5611 |supp=y}}</ref> [[rifle regiment]] of the British Army, serving in Singapore and Malaya in the suppression of the communist insurgency known as the "[[Malayan Emergency]]". He transferred to the Army reserve in 1955<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40527 |date=1 July 1955 |page=3864 |supp=y}}</ref> and resigned his commission the following year.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40807 |date=15 June 1956 |page=3575 |supp=y}}</ref> After his military service, Murray studied Philosophy and History at the [[Durham University|University of Durham]], graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Supplement |journal=University of Durham Gazette |date=16 August 1954 |volume=1 (New Series) |page=23 |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazetteNS01/DUGazNS01METSfile.xml#page/104/mode/2up |access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref> In 1955 he married Jean Ann Walters and became assistant minister at St. John's Free Church, Summertown, Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|last= Johnson |first= Larry G. |title= Ecumenicalism β The Evangelical Church's misguided group hug β Part I |date= 2017-02-17 |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |website= CultureWarrior.net |location= [[Owasso, Oklahoma]] |url= http://www.culturewarrior.net/2017/02/17/ecumenicalism-the-evangelical-churchs-misguided-group-hug-part-i/}}</ref><ref name=BannerBio>{{cite web|title= Iain H. Murray |accessdate= 2017-09-06 |type= biography |website= Banner of Truth |publisher= [[Banner of Truth Trust]] |url= https://banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/iain-h-murray/}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page