Edward Murphy

Edward Gordon Murphy (born 6 December 1921) is an English former first-class cricketer, Royal Air Force officer and medical doctor.

The son of the trade unionist and Communist J. T. Murphy and his wife, Ethel "Molly" Morris, he was born at Sheffield. His fathers political activities took the family to Minsk in the Byelorussian SSR in 1926. Controversially, his parents had placed him in the fee paying public school Bedales in Hampshire in 1928, which was popular with Fabians. His parents hoped placing him in a fee paying school would improve his prospects. After completing his education at Bedales, Murphy went up to the University of London where he studied medicine, graduating in 1945. He was commissioned into the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force as a flying officer in December 1946. He was promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant in November 1947. While serving in the Royal Air Force, Murphy played two first-class cricket matches for the Combined Services cricket team in 1948. The first of these came against Worcestershire at Worcester, with his second appearance coming against Gloucestershire at Gloucester. He scored 24 runs in these two matches, with a high score of 11. He was married to Nadia.