Family
Murry was married four times: to Katherine Mansfield in 1918, to Violet Le Maistre in 1924, to Elizabeth Cockbayne in 1932 and to Mary Gamble in 1954. With his second wife, Violet Le Maistre, he had two children: a daughter, Katherine Violet Middleton Murry who became a writer and published "Beloved Quixote, the secret life of John Middleton Murry" in 1986, and a son, John Middleton Murry, Jr., who became a writer under the names of Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. There were also two children of the third marriage.
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