Isaac Murray was born on March 24, 1824, in Meadowville, Nova Scotia.

He was a Presbyterian minister, educator, and editor. While attending Pictou Academy, he served as a rural schoolmaster. In 1844, he entered the theological hall of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia and completed his education at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. In 1850, he was ordained minister of Cavendish and New London, P.E.I., where he served as moderator of the Island presbytery. In 1857, he helped establish the Protector and Christian Witness in Charlottetown and became its co-editor. He also served as an editor of the Charlottetown Presbyterian and was instrumental in founding the Patriot. Education was one of Murray’s principal interests throughout his long career. In 1863, he was appointed to the Island’s Board of Education. He insisted on a distinction between teaching religious values and sectarianism. In 1873, he served as moderator of the Maritime synod of the Presbyterian Church and in 1876, his scholarship and efforts on behalf of the church earned him an honorary D.D. from Queen’s College in Kingston, Ontario. In 1882, he left the Island to become minister at Vale Colliery (Thorburn) and Sutherlands River, both in Pictou County, N.S., and in 1884, he accepted a call from North Sydney where he stayed until his retirement in 1896.

In 1854, he married Jane McKenna Sprott (1827-). He died on December 7, 1906, in New Glasgow, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

George Murray was born on March 23, 1830, in London, England.

He was a poet, translator, editor, and educator. He studied at King's College, London and Oxford University and moved to Canada in 1859. He taught classics at the Montreal High School. Murray served as a secretary of a literary club on Cathcart Street. He was the leading spirit of the Athenaeum Club, the Shakespeare Club, the Pen and Pencil Club, and the Royal Society of Canada. He served as a literary editor of the Star for thirty years. The selection of Murray’s poems titled "Poems" was published in 1912.

In 1859, he married Catherine Flora McLauchlin (1840–1914). He died on March 13, 1910, in Montreal, Quebec.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1890, Everitt George Dunne Murray went to England for his university and medical education. He attended Christ's College, Cambridge, and trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, being awarded a B.A. (1912), M.A. (1918) and his Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery of the Society of Apothecaries in 1916. During World War I he served with the rank of Captain in the British Army Medical Corps, not only being on the research staff of the War Office's Central Cerebro-Spinal Fever Laboratory, but working in Mesopotamia to control dysentery. He also was one of the British representatives at the Allies' Medical Services Conferences in Paris in 1917, next year becoming a member of the War Office Committee on dysentery and gaining an Order of the British Empire (Military Division).

Dr. Murray' academic career began at London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1919 when he was appointed Senior Demonstrator in Pathology. He moved on to Cambridge (where he was nicknamed "Joburg"), being appointed Fellow of Christ's College, 1923-1931, Lecturer in Pathology, 1926-1930, and Director Of Medical Studies, 1925-1930. Murray came to McGill University in 1930 as Professor and Head of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, a position he held until 1955 when he went to the University of Western Ontario as Guest Professor of Medical Research.

Murray published numerous papers in the fields of bacteriology and immunology, and during his time at McGill was also Bacteriologist-in-Chief and member of the Medical Board of the Royal Victoria Hospital (1931­-1946) and of the Children's Memorial Hospital (1938-1948) as well as holding other positions in the university and Montreal community. During World War 11 he acted on several subcommittees of the National Research Council and served as Chairman of the Biological Warfare Committee and Superintendent of Research at the Directorate of Chemical Warfare and Smoke, National Defence Headquarters.

Murray belonged to some 25 scientific societies and won many awards, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1948. He died in 1964.