Monday, August 16, 2021

Hon Dinah Karen Crawshay Murray 1946-2021

 The Hon Dinah Karen Crawshay Murray [nee Greenwood], who died 7 July, 2021, aged 75, was the daughter of the Labour party politician Tony Greenwood, the life peer as Baron Greenwood of Rossendale [1911-82]. She was a goddaughter of the prime minister Clement, [later 1st Earl] Attlee, KG.

She was born in Hampstead, 27 May, 1946, the daughter of Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood, Labour MP for Rossendale 1950-70, who served successively from 1964 to 1969 as Secretary of State for the Colonies, Minister of Overseas Development and Minister for Housing and Local Government in Harold Wilson's governments. 

Her mother was Gillian Crawshay-Williams, a designer and illustrator, descended from the Barons Monkswell.

Her grandfather, Arthur Greenwood, CH [1880-1954], was sometime Labour MP for Nelson and Colne, and later for Wakefield, who was deputy leader of the Labour for a decade under Clement Attlee.

She married in 1970, Canadian-born David Murray [1937-2016], the philosopher and music critic, by whom she had issue, three sons, Bruno, Leo and Fergus.

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