Lady Murray

Marjorie Nellie, Lady Murray (née Culverwell) (3 October 1924 – 6 February 2010) was a British administrator who was one of the last living people to witness both the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials. She was married to Sir Donald Murray, who served as British ambassador to Libya from 1974 to 1976.

Lady Murray worked at the GCHQ working on weather translations. She had learnt German from her father who had been held as a prisoner of war during World War I. She was transferred to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Grosvenor Square, London, where she was one of the few people to know the planned date of the D-Day landings. After the liberation of Paris, she was transferred there, and then to Germany to work on the Nuremberg Trials.

Soon after returning from Germany she was sent to Japan to work on the Tokyo trial. After she and her husband retired they moved to Kent.

Lady Murray died on 6 February 2010.[1] Her husband pre-deceased her. She is survived by her four children.

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