Andrew Murray

(9 May 1828-18 January 1917)

Andrew Murray (9 May 1828-18 January 1917) was a Christian pastor in South Africa.

Murray was the child of Dutch Reformed Church missionaries from Scotland to South Africa, and the younger brother of John Murray. Educated at the University of Utrecht, he was ordained by the Hague Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church on May 9, 1848. He pastored churched in Bloemfontein and Worcester, Cape Town, Wellington, South Africa. He married Emma Rutherford Murray in Cape Town, South Africa, on July 2, 1856, and they had eight adult children (four boys and four girls). He was a champion of the South African Revival of 1860. He died on January 18, 1917, four months before his eighty-ninth birthday.

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