He served in the Armed Forces during the Boer War and the First World War and in 1917 produced the volume, The Sough o' War. In 1920 he published his last volume, In the Country Places. After his death a final volume of poetry, Last Poems was published by the Charles Murray Memorial Trust in 1969.
He returned to Scotland when he retired in 1924 and settled in Banchory, not far from where he was brought up. There he died in 1941.
For examples of his poetry see
Charles Murray (1943-) is the Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Losing Ground (1984), What it Means to be a Libertarian (1997), and co-author with Richard Herrnstein of The Bell Curve (1994). Murray is a critic of deconstruction (see Stanley Fish).