Mr Simon Murray has been appointed a Minister of State at the Home Office with a seat in the House of Lords as a life peer.
Simon Peregrine Gauvain Murray [born 2 August 1974] is a barrister. He was appointed Minister of State at the Home Office on 7 October 2022, and is to be appointed a life peer. Called to the English bar in 2000, Murray practised public law at 39 Essex Chambers. He was educated at the University of St Andrews. He is a Conservative member of Gedling Borough Council, representing Newstead Abbey ward.
He is a son of Nigel Ormiston Gauvain Murray [1944-2002], and his wife the former Shirley Arbuthnot [born 9 March, 1949, later Mrs Peter Rountree], scion of the Arbuthnot baronets. He married at the Temple Church, London, 4 Oct, 2007, Amelia May Beaumont [born 12 Nov, 1983], a granddaughter of the Baron Beaumont of Whitley, daughter of the Hon Hubert Wentworth Beaumont [born 13 Apr, 1956], and his wife, the former Katherine Emma Abel Smith [born 11 March, 1961], a descendant of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The Murrays have a son and a daughter, twins.
HM Queen Victoria > Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany > Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone > Lady May Cambridge > Richard Francis Abel Smith > Katherine Abel Smith > Amelia Beaumont
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