William Lindsay Murphy
(1888-1965)
Bahamian colonial governor
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Sir William Lindsay Murphy (1888–1965) was the British Governor of the Bahamas from 28 July 1945 to 1950. Prior to his appointment as Governor, he was the Colonial Secretary of Bermuda from 1942–1945, before which he was the Mayor of Colombo and first Municipal Commissioner from 1937 to 1941 in Ceylon. The Irish poet Richard Murphy is his son. While governor of The Bahamas he officially opened the famous Lerner Marine Laboratory on the island of Bimini, a field station of the American Museum of Natural History. He was acting Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from February to October 1957.
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1965 (aged 76)
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