William Murison


William Dick Murison was a 19th-century Member of Parliament and a cricketer from Otago, New Zealand.

Biography

Murison was born in Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland, and migrated to New Zealand in 1856. He played three first-class matches for Otago between 1864 and 1867.
He represented the Waikouaiti electorate from 1866, when he narrowly defeated Julius Vogel, to 1868, when he resigned. From 1871 until his death in 1877, he was editor of the Otago Daily Times.
He died on 28 December 1877 in Dunedin, aged 40 years. He left a wife and five children.