Billy Murdoch

William Lloyd Billy Murdoch was an Australian cricketer who captained the Australian national side inTest matches between 1880 and 1890. This included four tours of England, one of which, in 1882, gave rise to The Ashes.

Murdoch was born in Sandhurst , Victoria, to Gilbert Murdoch and his wife Susanna . His father was an American of Scottish descent, who had been a corporal in the U.S. Army prior to emigrating from Maryland to Tasmania in 1849. He died shortly before his sons birth. The family moved to New South Wales in the early 1860s. Both Billy Murdoch and his older brother, Gilbert, subsequently studied law at the University of Sydney. Billy Murdoch married Jemima Watson daughter of John Boyd Watson onDecember 1884 at the Free Church of England, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.

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