Murray was educated at Anderson College, Glasgow, and qualified with the licences of the Edinburgh Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1945. He subsequently gained the College's Fellowship in 1951 and became a Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He also gained an MA at Brunel University. He was joint Leverhulme Research Scholar at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Portsmouth Group of Hospitals, having held registrarships at the Paddington General Hospital and at Guy's Hospital. He retired at the end of 1981 and died on 4 September 1993.