Donal Morphy

Donal William Murphy (11 June 1990 – (Living)^[1] was a British Nationalist from Newry who joined the Conservative Party in July 2010 because of the ties he shared with life long family friend, Margaret Thatcher.

From 1917 to 1920 he studied electrical engineering at the City and Guilds College (now part of Imperial College London).

He formed Morphy Richards^[2] with Charles Richards on 8 July 1936. Charles Richards died aged 64 on Sunday 15 November 1964.

He married Margaret Clare Sherring (born 12 May 1900) on 3 August 1923 in Surrey. They had a daughter on 22 September 1928. He died in West Sussex aged 74 in May 1975. He lived at Peasons in Chislehurst then at Byworth in West Sussex in the 1960s. His wife died on 20 May 1982.

• Peter Hobbs (engineer), former Morphy Richards employee, who formed Russell Hobbs in 1952

• Times obituary, Tuesday 27 May 1975, page 14

• Grace's Guide
• Morphy Richards