Background
The eldest son of Charles Wright Pickthorn, master mariner, and Edith Maud Berkeley Murray, he was educated at Aldenham School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Kenneth Murray
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Education
Trinity College.
Career
In World War I he served with the 15th London Regiment and the Royal Air Force in France and Macedonia. He was appointed a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1914, serving as Dean from 1919–1927 and a Tutor from 1927-1935. He was President of the College from 1937-1944.
He served in government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education from 1951 until October 1954.
He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by Cambridge University in 1936, created a Baronet in 1959 and appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964.
Membership
37th United Kingdom Parliament. 38th United Kingdom Parliament. 39th United Kingdom Parliament.
40th United Kingdom Parliament.
41st United Kingdom Parliament. 42nd United Kingdom Parliament.
43rd United Kingdom Parliament]
He served as Conservative Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Cambridge University from 1935–1950 and, on the abolition of University constituencies, for the Carlton Division of Nottinghamshire from 1950-1966.
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Political Party
Conservative Party