Murchison 1793–1854). _b._ Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb.
1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great
Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug.
1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s
Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to
general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14;
captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815;
attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany.
1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826,
Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society
1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus
1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president
of British Association at York 1846; director general of the
geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a
baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861;
lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer
of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair
of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian
system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks
containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von
Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the
Ural Mountains 1845; _m._ 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of
general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she _d._
16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. _d._ 16 Belgrave sq.
London 22 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty
sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. _A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R.
I. Murchison_, 2 _vols._ (1875) _portrait_; _Dunkin’s Obituary
notices of astronomers_ (1879) 206–13; _Quarterly journal of
Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 29–35 (1872); _Walford’s Representative Men_
(1868) _portrait No._ 13; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 237 (1866) _portrait_;
_Graphic iv_ 411, 429 (1871) _portrait_; _Illust. Times 13 Jany.
1866 p._ 17 _portrait_; _Victoria Mag. xii_ 461–3 (1809) _an
account of Lady Murchison_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 297–8
(1869).
MURDOCH, GEORGE. _b._ 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany.
1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22
Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired
14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for
which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced,
the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials
of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading
system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece
to the Admiralty 1866. _d._ Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.
MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1767; a baker; the public hangman in
Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct.
1851. _d._ 15 March 1856. _Times 28 March 1856 p._ 10.
MURDOCH, JOHN. _b._ Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied
in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of
western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop
of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop
Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to
death. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865.
MURDOCH, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM CLINTON (son of Thomas Murdoch,
F.R.S.) _b._ Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at
Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk
May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842;
chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847,
retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1
Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of
America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. _d._ 88 St. George’s sq.
London 30 Nov. 1891.
MURE, DAVID (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell,
Renfrewshire, _d._ 1831). _b._ 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one
of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28
Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord
advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session
with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord
justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute
1859–65. _d._ Bournemouth 11 April 1891.
MURE, JAMES (son of James Mure). _b._ Great George st.
Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s
scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820;
barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue
On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for
the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the
play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the
Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club
1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri
Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. _d._ 20 Gloucester place,
Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. _F. H. Forshall’s Westminster
school_ (1884) 311–13.
MURE, WILLIAM (brother of David Mure 1810–91). _b._ Caldwell,
Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs.
of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb.
1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P.
Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8;
author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian
dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of
ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian
islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature
of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for
the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from
the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. _d._ 55 Rutland
gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. _G.M. viii_ 634–5
(1860).
MURE, WILLIAM (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 9 May
1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851;
captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards
13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860;
served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut.
col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested
Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to
death. _d._ 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.
MURFITT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man
in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of
waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly
exhibited down to 1886. _d._ Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.
MURLAND, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman
of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern
railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national
education in Ireland 1865 to death. _Found dead_ in his bed at
Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890.
_Irish law times xxiv_ 275 (1890).
MURLY, GEORGE BULLOCK. _b._ 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to
death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded
Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849;
founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. _d._
Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.
MURPHY, MR. _b._ Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the
Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in
his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent;
at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress
of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone.
_d._ of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. _Willis’
Current Notes_ (1857) 34; _E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs_
(1868) 224; _F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history_, _3rd
series ii_ 23 (1868).
MURPHY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH MARY ANNUNCIATA (eld. child of Charles
George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). _b._ Portman sq.
London 25 March 1845; _m._ 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an
Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but
finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he
was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge,
New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to
death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly,
The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. _d._ North
Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. _bur._
in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 465 (1888); _The Tablet 23 April 1881
pp._ 659–60.
MURPHY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I.
1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in
hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery
Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848;
president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the
practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed.
1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. _d._ 1 Nottingham place,
Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. _Barker’s Photographs of
medical men i_ 69–72 (1868) _portrait_; _Medical times i_ 217
(1877).
MURPHY, FRANCIS. _b._ Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at
St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826;
missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s,
Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838;
vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of
Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral,
Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in
Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South
Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr.
Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. _d._ West terrace, Adelaide 26
April 1858.
MURPHY, SIR FRANCIS (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the
South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years).
_b._ Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London
1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for
Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on
a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower
in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000
acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray
in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative
assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman
of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the
assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May
1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the
Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services
as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation
1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. _d._ St. Hilda
road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.
NOTE.--His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative
assembly of Queensland. _d._ Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in
his 50th year.
MURPHY, FRANCIS STACK (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). _b._
Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin,
classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister
L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father
Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces
him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn;
M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842;
received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of
insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit,
many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north
and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench
and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of
cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. _d._
Kensington, London 17 June 1860. _Bates’s Maclise portrait
gallery_ (1883) 464–7; _I.L.N. iv_ 107 (1844) _portrait_; _Law
Times xxxv_ 191 (1860).
MURPHY, GEORGE MOLLETT (son of a shop keeper who _d._ 1845).
_b._ Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839,
became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845;
an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52;
signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson
and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham
1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge
road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall,
his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling,
with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths
for religious services during many seasons; minister of the
Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’
industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a
Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for
the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death
and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The
slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by
An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a
poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them
1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or
speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story,
a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education
of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for
temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 8 Finchley road,
Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 22
July. _Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy_ (1888) _portrait_;
_The Biograph iv_ 233–7 (1880).
MURPHY, GEORGE STORMONT. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent
association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870
to death. _d._ 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb.
1893. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb., the funeral procession
extended upwards of a mile in length, being mainly composed of
cabdrivers with their cabs.
MURPHY, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 22 June 1866;
bencher of Kings’ Inns 1871. _d._ 1883.
MURPHY, JEREMIAH JOHN (younger son of John Murphy of Cork). _b._
Cork 1803; ed. at Clongowes Wood college and Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Jany. 1828; Q.C. 17
Aug. 1841; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1847; a master in chancery
1846–74, when offices of masters were abolished. _d._ 50 Upper
Mount st. Dublin 25 June 1878. _bur._ in Glasnevin cemet. _Law
mag. and law review iii_ 206 (1857).
MURPHY, JOHN. _b._ Omagh, co. Tyrone 12 March 1812; taken to
U.S. of America 1822; apprenticed to a printer at Philadelphia
1826; a printer at Baltimore 1835, became one of the chief
Roman Catholic publishers; issued the United States Catholic
Mag. 1842–9; published the Metropolitan Mag. 1853–9; printed a
translation of the Definition of the dogma of the immaculate
conception 1855, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a gold medal;
issued the Proceedings of the second plenary council of
Baltimore 1866, for which Pius IX conferred upon him honorary
title of printer to the pope, a distinction that had never been
bestowed on a resident of any English speaking country. _d._
Baltimore, Maryland 27 May 1880.
MURPHY, MILES. _b._ Oulart, near Gorey, co. Wexford 8 Sept.
1787; ed. at Maynooth to 1811; president of Wexford college
from 1811 for many years; declined the see of Ossory 1828;
parish priest of Tintern 1831; parish priest of Wexford 1835–50;
vicar capitular 1849; bishop of Ferns 19 Nov. 1849 to death,
consecrated 10 March 1850. _d._ Ballin, Oulart 13 Aug. 1856.
_bur._ Enniscorthy cathedral 18 Aug. _The Tablet 16 Aug. 1856
p._ 524, _23 Aug. p._ 540.
MURPHY, PATRICK. Called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1841;
chairman of quarter sessions Cavan 1835 to death. _d._ Hotel
Folkestone, Boulogne 7 Nov. 1862.
MURPHY, TIMOTHY. _b._ Parish of Coachford, co. Cork 16 Dec.
1789; entered Maynooth college Sept. 1810; ordained priest May
1815; C. of Fermoy March 1826, and parish priest there 1841;
bishop of Cloyne 19 April 1849 to death, consecrated 16 Sept.
1849. _d._ Fermoy 4 Dec. 1856. _Brady’s Episcopal succession ii_
102 (1876).
MURRAY, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. 87 foot 24 April 1835; lieut.
18 foot 23 Oct. 1839, captain 20 Aug. 1844; captain 87 foot 31
Jany. 1845, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to death; served in the
China expedition, was wounded at Chefoo. _d._ London 24 Dec.
1865.
MURRAY, ALEXANDER (son of Anthony Murray of Dollerie, Crieff).
_b._ 1811; entered royal navy 1824; lieutenant 1830, retired
1835; served at battle of Navarino 1827; first assistant of
geological survey of Canada 1843–64; director of geological
survey of Newfoundland 1864 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._
Belmont cottage, Crieff, Perthshire 18 Dec. 1884.
MURRAY, AMELIA MATILDA (4 dau. of George Murray 1761–1803,
bishop of St. Davids). _b._ 30 April 1795; had a government
pension of £70 from 1803; great friend of lady Byron 1820 etc.;
maid of honour to queen Victoria 1837, resigned 1856; extra
woman of the bedchamber; author of Remarks on education 1847;
Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, 2 vols. 1856;
Recollections from 1803 to 1837, 1868; Pictorial and descriptive
sketches of the Odenwald, 2 parts 1869. _d._ Glenberrow, near
Malvern, Herefordshire 7 June 1884.
MURRAY, ANDREW (2 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall,
Perthshire 1782–1847). _b._ Edinb. 19 Aug. 1813; ed. at high
school, academy and univ.; apprenticed to Wm. Fairbairn,
C.E. 1832–37, managing partner with him at Millwall 1842–43;
assistant chief engineer of Woolwich dockyard 1843; chief
engineer of Portsmouth dockyard May 1846–69; inspector of
factories and consulting engineer to the admiralty 1869 to April
1870; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838, M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1847; C.B. 1869.
_d._ Richmond, Surrey 13 Oct. 1872. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E.
xxxvi_ 270–72 (1873).
MURRAY, ANDREW (son of Wm. Murray of Conland, Perthshire). _b._
Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1812; a writer to the signet in Edinb. 15 June
1837–60; professor of natural science in New college, Edinb. for
one session 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; secretary of the Oregon
exploration society on its foundation; president of Botanical
society of Edinb. 1858–9; assistant secretary in London to
Royal horticultural society 1860, member of its scientific
committee 1868, scientific director 1877 to death; F.L.S. 1861;
began collection of economic entomology for Science and art
department 1868, now at Bethnal Green museum; author of The
pines and firs of Japan 1863; the letter press to Peter Lawson’s
Pinetum Britannicum 1866; The geographical distribution of
mammals 1866. _d._ 67 Bedford gardens, Camden hill, Kensington
10 Jany. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 12 Jany.
MURRAY, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM. _b._ 15 Oct. 1811; ensign 73 foot
28 Dec. 1832, lieut. 1837; captain 1 West India regiment 25
Nov. 1842, lieut. col. 16 March 1860; commanded the troops on
expedition up the river Gambia in Feb. 1861; placed on h.p. 4
March 1862; deputy adjutant general Windward and Leeward Islands
4 March 1862 to 30 April 1867; commanded forces in Mauritius
14 Jany. 1877 to 14 Jany. 1882; granted distinguished service
reward 28 Jany. 1868; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list
with hon. rank of L.G. 14 Jany. 1882; C.B. 27 Jany. 1862. _d._
Limassol, Cyprus 18 Mar. 1894.
MURRAY, CHARLES KNIGHT (son of Charles Murray). _b._ 12 Oct.
1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; barrister L.I. 1 Feb.
1825; principal secretary to lord chancellor Lyndhurst; a comr.
of bankrupts in London 1829–31; police magistrate at Union Hall
police Southwark court 7 Oct. 1830 to Dec. 1834; secretary and
treasurer to ecclesiastical comrs. for England and Wales Dec.
1834 to Dec. 1849, when he owed them £6,000; went to Melbourne,
Victoria 1852. _d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 1865.
MURRAY, DANIEL (son of a farmer). _b._ Sheepwalk, near Arklow,
co. Wicklow 18 April 1768; studied at Dublin and at Salamanca
1784; R.C. curate at St. Paul, Dublin 1790, and then at Arklow
to 1798; C. of St. Mary, Dublin 1798–1809; prebendary of
Wicklow 1805; coadjutor archbishop of Dublin, with title of
archbishop of Hierapolis 30 Nov. 1809; archbishop of Dublin 1823
to death; had a long controversy respecting The Notes of the
Douay Bible and Rhenish New Testament 1826 to 1850; president
of Maynooth college; established the order of the Sisters of
Charity; a comr. of national board of education 1831 to death;
took part in the synod of the R.C. clergy at Thurles 1850;
author of A pastoral address announcing the miraculous cure of
Mrs. M. Stuart 1823, a work to which replies were printed.
_d._ Mountjoy sq. Dublin 26 Feb. 1852, body embalmed. _bur._
pro-cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin 2 March, where is marble
statue of him in memorial monument by James Farrell; marble
bust in Irish national gallery, Dublin. _J. D’Alton’s Memoirs
of archbishops of Dublin_ (1838) 488–92; _D. Murray’s Sermons_,
2 _vols._ _Dublin_ (1859) _portrait_; _Notices of D. Murray,
archbishop of Dublin by W. Meagher_ (1853) _memoir pp._ 53–142.
MURRAY, EDWARD (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884).
_b._ Lower ward of Windsor castle 5 Nov. 1798; ed. at
Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1829; usher
of Westminster school 1820–1; V. of Stinsford, Dorset 1823–37;
R. of Winterbourn Monkton, Dorset 1831–37; V. of Northolt,
Middlesex 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1 Dec. 1848
to death; author of Prayers and collects, translated from the
annotations of Calvin 1825; Enoch Restitutus, the book of Enoch
with parallel passages from the scriptures 1836. _d._ Northolt 1
July 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 317 (1852).
NOTE.--He applied the Archimedian screw to the purposes of navigation
in 1823 and many of his lines were used in the admiralty and in men of
war. He was a member of the Chess Club and beat France when he played
for England more than once.
MURRAY, ELIZABETH (dau. of Thomas Heaphy president of Society of
British artists 1775–1835). Educ. at Rome; while sketching at
Cambray was arrested as a spy; sent to Malta by queen Adelaide
to take some views 1836; exhibited 18 portraits at R.A. 1834–47;
resided in America 12 years; visited Rome 1875; author of
Sixteen years of an artist’s life in Morocco, Spain and the
Canary islands, 2 vols. 1859; _m._ Henry John Murray, British
consul in Maine, U.S. of America 1860–76; consul at Buenos Ayres
1876, retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1879. She _d._ San Remo, Italy
8 Dec. 1882. _Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_
111–16 (1876).
MURRAY, ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Henry Lee, dramatist and manager
1765–1836). _b._ 15 May 1816; acted Little Pickle in The
spoilt child at Barnstaple theatre 1821; played in her
father’s theatres in West of England, and then at Manchester,
Liverpool, and Leeds; first appeared in London at Olympic as
Cupid in extravaganza Cupid; played at Covent Garden 30 Sept.
1839, then at Sadler’s Wells and in Birmingham; leading lady
at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 1841; played Apollo in Frank
Talfourd’s burlesque, Diogenes and his lantern at Strand 7 Feb.
1850; played at Olympic Oct. 1850, at Adelphi April 1853; the
original Madame Duchatlet in The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May
1854; played Victorine in Victorine, or I’ll sleep on it 30
Aug. 1855; played Lady Lavender in S. Coyne’s comedy The love
knot at Drury Lane 8 March 1858; the original Mrs. Burr in J.
Oxenford’s The porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Patty in Craven’s
Chimney Corner 21 Feb. 1861, Mrs. Major de Boots in S. Coyne’s
comedy Everybody’s Friend 17 May 1865, all at Olympic; played
Lady Selina Raffle-ticket in Dion Boucicault’s How she loves him
21 Dec. 1867, Mrs. Kinpeck in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868,
Lady Franklyn in Bulwer’s Money 4 May 1872, lady Lundie in W.
Collins’s Man and wife 22 Feb. 1873, Mrs. Candour in The school
for scandal 4 April 1874, all at Prince of Wales’s theatre;
played Mrs. Crumbley in Burnand’s comedy A proof positive at
Opéra Comique 16 Oct. 1875, Madame Seneschal in Fernande 20
Sept. 1879, and Mrs. M’Tartar in Byron’s comedy Courtship
16 Oct. 1879, both at Court theatre; played Neeltje Kwak in
Faassen’s play Annie Mie at Prince of Wales’s 1 Nov. 1880; the
original Lady Tompkins in Burnand’s The Colonel at Prince of
Wales’s 2 Feb. 1881, and Mrs. Goddard in Jones and Herman’s
Breaking a butterfly 3 March 1884, the first English version of
Ibsen’s Doll’s House, and Mrs. Stead in The private secretary
29 March 1884, both at Prince’s theatre; given a benefit at
Haymarket theatre 9 May 1888, when she played Mrs. Foley in
Forget me not; _m._ at Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1841 Henry Leigh
Murray, actor, who _d._ 29 Jany. 1870. She _d._ 25 May 1892.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 28 May. _Theatrical Times iii_ 381, 382
(1848) _portrait_.