James William Murison
Sir James William Murison (23 March 1872 – 28 August 1945) was a Scottish colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of the Straights Settlements from 1925 to 1933,[1] and, before that, Chief Judge of Zanzibar. He chaired the Murison Committee, a commission set up to study the incidents leading to the violent outbreak and the course of events between 13 October and 3 November 1933, in Palestine, and estimate the damage done to property and loss of life.[2] The commission's report was published in the Palestine Gazette and, after presenting its outline of the causes and events of the disturbances, concluded that while an "Arab crowd in Palestine is mercurial and excitable and when excited, dangerous", the British colonial Palestine Police Force had in its response "acted with restraint and forbearance".[3]
He was born in Aberdeen, the younger son of academic Alexander Falconer Murison. He attended St Olave's Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted at the Middle Temple in 1893 and called to the bar in 1896. He worked as a conveyancer in 1900 and then entered the colonial service in Africa in 1902. He was knighted in 1919.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "SIR JAMES MURISON, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS …". www.nas.gov.sg. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ Harouvi, Eldad (2016). Palestine Investigated - The Criminal Investigation Department of the Palestine Police Force, 1920-1948. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-1845198091.
- ^ "The Murison Commission Report". Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question. 4 January 1934. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "Obituary: Sir William Murison". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 1 September 1945. p. 19.
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