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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

1898; acting Deputy Master Attend- ant, 1901; Commander of Colonial

steamer, 1901; acting Deputy

Master Attendant, 1903; Com- mander of Colonial steamer, "Sea

Mew"; Magistrate for Singapore;

Member of Board of Examination

for Masters and Mates, since 1903.

Address: Singapore, Straits Settle-

ments.

MURPHY, Rev. U. G. (Nagoya), Mis-

sionary; b. Aug. 26, 1869, at Draw-

bridge, Md., U.S.A.; m. Ang. 3, 1893; Nora Street. Educ.: Public School; West Maryland Theological Seminary, Home Missionary, Seattle, Washington 1892; Origina-

ted and carried to successful conclu-

sion movement commonly known as "free cessation," by which victims of social evil, and geisha,

in Japan, were enabled to change their mode of life irrespective of

debts, desire of keepers or parents or other reasons, thus ending legal

traffic in young girls in Japan;

President Methodist Protestant

Church in Japan, 1903 to date.

Publications: "Social Evil in

Japan" and tracts in Japanese. Address: Nagoya, Japan.

MURRAY, Colonel the Hon. Alex-

ander V. D. (SINGAPORE), M.I.C.E., F.R.C.I.; Colonial Engineer and Surveyor General, Straits Settle-

ments; b. Jan. 13, 1850; 8. of

Alexander Murray, District Judge, Kandy, Ceylon; m. Mary Lonisa, d. of Ralph Tatham, Ceylon Civil Service. Educ.: Hyde Abbey, Winchester; Glasgow University. Appointed by Secretary of State to Ceylon Civil Service, 1871;

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Provincial Engineer, N.C.P., 1866; Province, of Uva, 1895: Western

Province, 1897; acting Director of Public Works, Ceylon, 1897; sent on special mission to report on Public Works Department of Negri Sembilan, 1899; proceeded to Ceylon on special service, 1900; proceeded to England in command

of Straits Settlements and Fede-

rated Malay States Coronation

Contingent, 1902; proceeded to Ceylon on special service, 1903;

since 1898 member of the Executive

and Legislative Councils, Straits Settlements; member of local joint

naval and Military Defence Com-

mittee; late Commandant, Singa- pore Volunteer Corps. Decoration: Coronation Silver Medal. Recrea-

tions: Rowing, tennis, shooting, cycling, riding. Clubs: Colombo; Singapore; Grosvenor, Piccadilly, London. Address: "Kinloss,” Tanglin, Singapore, Straits Settle-

ments.

MURRAY, Dr. David Ambrose

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(OSAKA), D.D., A.M.; Principal of Bible Training College, Osaka; b. March 23, 1861, in Montgomery Co.,

New York, U.S.A.; m. Oct. 11, 1905;

Annie L.A. Foster, d. of Thos. D. Foster, of Ottumwa, Ia. Educ.: Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Monmouth College, M on month Ill. (A.B., 1885); A.M., Prince- ton University, 1887; graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1888. Teaching in Go- vernment Schools in Japan, 1688-92;

Pastor in U.S.A., 1893-1902; at Chicago, Ill.; Perry, Ia. and Ottumwa, Ia.; Missionary to Japan