{{use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Murray Hammick | honorific_suffix = KCSI CIE | image = | image_size = | order1 = Member of the Council of State (India) | term_start1 = 16 August 1915 | term_end1 = 7 November 1921 | governor-general1 = The Viscount Chelmsford<br>The Marquess of Reading | order2 = Governor of Madras<br>(Acting) | term_start2 = 30 March 1912 | term_end2 = 30 October 1912 | predecessor2 = The Lord Carmichael | successor2 = The Lord Pentland | governor-general2 = The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst | order3 = Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras | term_start3 = 1908 | term_end3 = 1912 | governor3 = The Lord Wenlock,<br />The Lord Carmichael | birth_name = Murray Love Hammick | birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|05|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Tavistock, Devon, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|03|04|1854|05|11|df=yes}} | death_place = United Kingdom | party = | alma_mater = | profession = | occupation = | father = Sir St Vincent Hammick, 2nd Baronet | mother = Mary Alexander | spouse = {{marriage|Ada Constance Searle<br>|11 December 1883||reason=}} }}
'''Sir Murray Love Hammick''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|CIE}} (11 May 1854{{snd}}4 March 1936) was an Indian civil servant and administrator who acted as the Governor of Madras from 30 March 1912 to 30 October 1912.
== Early life == Murray Hammick was born on 11 May 1854 to Rev. Sir St Vincent Hammick, 2nd Baronet and Mary Alexander. Among his siblings were Sir St Vincent Hammick, 3rd Baronet and the Ven. Ernest Austen Hammick, Archdeacon of Durban and of Zululand.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
His paternal grandparents were Sir Stephen Hammick, 1st Baronet, a noted surgeon and physician, and Frances Turquand (a daughter of London merchant Peter Turquand). His maternal grandparents were Robert Alexander and Grace ({{nee}} Blacker) Alexander.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
== Career == Murray Hammick graduated from the Fell King's College and joined the Indian Civil Service after clearing the exams in 1875.<ref name="burmalist">{{cite book|title=The India office and Burma office list|page=517|author= Great Britain. India Office|year=1924}}</ref> He arrived in India on 18 December 1877 and served as Sub Collector in the Madras President and as Assistant Commissioner of Coorg.<ref name="burmalist" /> He served as the Inspector-General of police of Madras from 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Madras government. In 1908, Hammick was appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras and served from 1908 to March 1912, when he was chosen to act as the Governor of Madras until the arrival of the governor-designate John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland in October 1912.
=== Governor of Madras=== Hammick acted as the Governor of Madras from 30 March 1912 to 30 October 1912.
=== Later career === In 1913, Hammick was appointed member of the Royal Commission to inquire into the Civil Services in India. In 1915, Hammick was appointed to the Council of State and served as a member from 1915 to 1922.
Hammick was also a prominent freemason and was the provincial grandmaster of the District Grand Lodge of Madras from 1910 to 1914.<ref name="dgl_madras">{{cite web|title=PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTERS ON THE COAST OF COROMANDEL OF MADRAS OR OF PRESIDENCY OF MADRAS|url=http://www.dglmadras.org.in/dgms_of_madras.htm|publisher=District Grand Lodge Madras|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001225110/http://www.dglmadras.org.in/dgms_of_madras.htm|archive-date=1 October 2010}}</ref>
== Personal life== On 11 December 1883, Hammick married Ada Constance Searle, daughter of Major-General Arthur Thaddeus Searle and Lucy Helen Byne. The couple had two sons and three daughters, including:
* Lorna Mary Hammick (1884–1956), who married Norman Dalrymple Shaw, son of J. C. Shaw, in 1911.<ref name="Mosley2003"/> * Dorothy Constance Hammick (1886–1988), who married Col. Alexander Charles Broughton Mackinnon, son of Col. Walter Carr Mackinnon, in 1921.<ref name="Mosley2003"/> * Henry Alexander Hammick (1890–1968), the Chief Engineer of the Iraq Petroleum Company and co-inventor of the HAMEL PLUTO D-Day pipeline system; he married Mabel Emily Pilditch, daughter of Sir Philip Pilditch, 1st Baronet and Emily Mary Lewis, in 1919.<ref name="Mosley2003"/> * Lucy Mabel Hammick (1893–1975), who was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire in 1920.<ref name="Mosley2003"/> * John Murray Hammick (1901–1902), who died as an infant in India.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
Sir Murray died in England on 4 March 1936.<ref name="Mosley2003">Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 2, p. 1754.</ref>
=== Honours === Hammick was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in November 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27374 |date=9 November 1901 |page=7288 |supp=y}}</ref> He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in 1907 and raised to a Knight Commander (KCSI) of the order in 1911.
== Notes == {{reflist|30em}}
== Works == * {{cite book|title=Rural India: land, power, and society under British rule|author=Murray Hammick|year=1930}} * {{cite book|title=Historical sketches of the south of India: in an attempt to trace the history of Mysoor from the origin of the Hindoo Government of that state to the extinction of the Mohammedan dynasty in 1799, Volume 2: Historical Sketches of the South of India: In an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of that State to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799|year=1932|author=Murray Hammick |author2=Mark Wills }}
== Further reading == * {{cite book|title=Tour of H.E. the Hon. Sir Murray Hammick, Governor of Madras: Vizagapatam and Godavari, August 6th to 15, 1912|publisher=Superintendent, Government Press|year=1912}}
{{s-start}} {{succession box | title = Inspector-General of police (Madras Presidency) | years = 1894-1906 |before = | after= }} {{succession box | title = Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras | years = 1906–1908 |before = | after= }}
{{succession box | title = Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras | years = 1908–1912 |before = | after= }} {{succession box | title = Governor of Madras | years = 30 March 1912 – 30 October 1912 |before = The Lord Carmichael | after= The Lord Pentland }} {{succession box | title = Member of the Council of State (India) | years = 15 August 1915 – 7 November 1921 |before = | after= }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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