The Board of Murray Income Trust PLC announced the appointment of Merryn Somerset Webb as an independent non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 7 August 2019. Merryn Somerset Webb is the Editor-in-Chief of UK personal finance magazine Money Week and comments regularly on financial matters across radio and television. She is a director of several charities as well as a non-executive director of two other investment trusts. Merryn Somerset Webb is a director of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC and Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust plc.