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

Biography

He was born in Alyth

Alyth

Alyth is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated under the Hill of Alyth five miles northeast of Blairgowrie. The village has a population of 2,301...

, Perthshire

Perthshire

Perthshire, officially the County of Perth , is a registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south...

, Scotland. He was a New Zealand cricketer who played three first-class matches

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for the Otago Volts between 1864 and 1867.

He represented the Waikouaiti

Waikouaiti (New Zealand electorate)

Waikouaiti is a former parliamentary electorate in the Otago region of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1908.Waikouaiti was represented by ten Members of Parliament:* William Dick Murison 1866-68 * Robert Mitchell 1868-69...

 electorate from 1866 to 1868, when he resigned.

He died on 28 December 1877 in Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

, aged 40 years.