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.