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James Dixon Murray

When the chapel closed, he founded and opened the new Murray Independent Methodist Church on 11 October 1958 on the new Saw Mills Estate, at Grove Road, Brandon which is locally known as "Jimmy Murray's chapel".

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Prior to his election to Parliament, he ran a shop and lived in a house opposite it at 11 Frederick Street, North Meadowfield until he died.

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He was a member of a family of 12 brought up in a miner's three-roomed cottage at 27, Front Street, Browney Colliery.

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