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John Middleton Murry Jr.

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John Middleton Murry Jr. was an English writer who used the names
Colin Murry
and Richard Cowper.

Murry was the son of the writer
John Middleton Murry
and his second wife, the former Violet Le Maistre. His mother contracted pulmonary tuberculosis when Murry was 8 months old, and died just before his fifth birthday. Murry was nicknamed "Colin" by his grandmother, which later served as a semi-pseudonymous pen name for some of his books.

Murry attended Rendcomb College, a progressive school in Gloucestershire. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1944 and applied to join the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot, but was turned down on the grounds of poor eyesight and was never in combat.

After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Brasenose College, Oxford from where he graduated in 1949. He met Ruth Jezierski and married her in 1949. The couple had two daughters.

In 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife, Murry died, of a broken heart according to his daughters, as reported by his longtime friend and fellow writer, Christopher Priest

John Middleton Murry Jr.

3.6/5 ( ratings)
John Middleton Murry Jr. was an English writer who used the names
Colin Murry
and Richard Cowper.

Murry was the son of the writer
John Middleton Murry
and his second wife, the former Violet Le Maistre. His mother contracted pulmonary tuberculosis when Murry was 8 months old, and died just before his fifth birthday. Murry was nicknamed "Colin" by his grandmother, which later served as a semi-pseudonymous pen name for some of his books.

Murry attended Rendcomb College, a progressive school in Gloucestershire. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1944 and applied to join the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot, but was turned down on the grounds of poor eyesight and was never in combat.

After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Brasenose College, Oxford from where he graduated in 1949. He met Ruth Jezierski and married her in 1949. The couple had two daughters.

In 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife, Murry died, of a broken heart according to his daughters, as reported by his longtime friend and fellow writer, Christopher Priest

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