Oxford University and, on his return to Australia, served as a commissioned officer in the Boer War. In 1908, he became the highly regarded colonial administrator of Papua, dying in office shortly before the Japanese invasion during World War II. Dr Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), who became Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University and, among other things, a participant in the drafting of the League of Nations Covenant. (Note: Professor Murray, whose full array of given names was George Gilbert Aimé, declined to accept a knighthood when one was offered by the King in 1912 but he accepted the Order of Merit in 1941.) Following the loss of her husband in 1873, Lady Agnes Murray made ends meet by conducting a girls' school at Sydney's Potts Point. (Her stepdaughter, Leila Alexandrina Murray, was a member of the school's staff for a time.) She was also a founding committee member of the Sydney Foundling Hospital (now The Infants' Home Child and Family Services) a refuge for unmarried mothers and their children. Lady Murray's girls school did not thrive financially in the long run, however. She returned home to England, dying there in 1891. See also References Further reading For more information about the history of the Yarralumla estate during Murray's tenure, see: Canberra Historical Journal, New Series, Number 48, September 2001, pages 11–31; Gables, Ghosts & Governors-General: The Historic House at Yarralumla, by C.D. Coulthard-Clark, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1988. 1810 births 1873 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian people of Irish descent Presidents of the New South Wales Legislative Council Speakers of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians Australian Knights Bachelor Australian book and manuscript collectors