Murry was the son of the writer John Middleton Murry and his second wife, the former Violet Le Maistre, who died just before the boy's fifth birthday.
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 the boy's fifth birthday.