Tom Murray

The first Superintendent of the Malta House Labour Home was Tom Murray who was in charge of the Home at its previous location in Sciennes. He had previously been manager of Grove House,¹ which opened in 1900 to provide food and lodging for ‘men of the respectable working class.’² Tom Murray left Malta House in 1910 to become superintendent of the newly opened Naval and Military Veterans Home at Whiteford House in the Canongate.³

1. Edinburgh Evening News. 04 December 1908. p. 4, col. 4. https://britishnespaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 20 October 2024.
2. ‘A New Venture in Lodging Houses.’ Edinburgh Evening News. 05 June 1900. p. 2, col. 3. https://britishnespaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 20 October 2024.
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