Plantagenet, 2 duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1797–1861). _b._
1824; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1 March 1848; student of the
Inner Temple 1850; attaché to embassy at Vienna 14 July 1851,
acted as correspondent of the Morning Post, but was forbidden
to continue his correspondence; attaché at Constantinople 1852;
vice-consul to Mitylene 1853–4; attaché at Teheran 1857; consul
general at Odessa 24 July 1858, dismissed by lord Stanley 28
May 1868; returned to England 1868 and contributed to the first
number of Vanity Fair 7 Nov. 1868; started a weekly journal
entitled The Queen’s Messenger 21 Jany. 1869; horsewhipped by
lord Carrington outside the Conservative club 22 June 1869
for a libel upon his father Robert John, 2 baron Carrington
1796–1868; charged with perjury at Bow st. 17 July 1869, fled
from his bail to Paris; lived in Paris July 1869 to death, where
he took the title of his Spanish wife, comte de Rethel d’Aragon;
Paris correspondent of the Daily News and Pall Mall gazette;
proprietor with E. H. Yates of The World for a short time from
July 1874; author of The roving Englishman 1854, 2 ed. 1855; The
member for Paris: a tale of the second empire. By Trois-Etoiles,
3 vols. 1871; Men of the second empire 1872; Men of the third
republic 1873; Young Brown, or the law of inheritance 1874; The
Russians of to-day 1878; Side lights on English society, 2 vols.
1881; High life in France under the republic 1884; Under the
lens, social photographs, 2 vols. 1885. _d._ Passy, near Paris
20 Dec. 1881. _bur._ Paris 24 Dec. _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_
309–30 (1884); _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 106–10;
_Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers ii_ 301–11 (1887); _Biograph
vi_ 585 (1881); _Truth 29 Dec. 1881 pp._ 24–5; _A.R._ (1869)
79–82; _Papers relating to Mr. G. Murray_, _Parliamentary Papers
1868–69_, _No._ 4163.
MURRAY, FREEMAN. _b._ 16 Nov. 1804; ensign 64 foot 24 Feb.
1825, captain 21 Dec. 1832; captain 60 foot 11 July 1834, major
20 Aug. 1844; major 17 foot 23 April 1847, lieut. col. 5 Nov.
1847, placed on h.p. same day; lieut. col. 72 foot 11 Sept.
1849, placed on h.p. 5 May 1854; governor of Bermuda 1854–61;
commanded Chatham district 1 Jany. 1867 to 31 March 1870, and
Eastern district 1 April 1870 to 31 Dec. 1871; col. of 57 foot
14 April 1873, of 93 foot 11 Dec. 1875, and of 60 foot 11 Oct.
1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Florence 14 April 1885.
MURRAY, GASTON, stage name of Garstin Parker Wilson. _b._
London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre,
Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life;
first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom
Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s
Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles
Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at
Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany.
1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played
Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859;
Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo
in Falconer’s Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played
Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb.
1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr.
Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s;
played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend
at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s
Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque
Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867,
all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s
All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande
15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4
March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in
Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The
Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872;
treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and
Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General
theatrical fund 1880–2. _d._ 8 Aug. 1889. _bur._ Nunhead cemet.
12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. _The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p._
8, _17 Aug. p._ 8.
MURRAY, GEORGE (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884).
_b._ Farnham 12 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow and at Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
student, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810, D.D. 1814; R. of Bocking, Essex
1802; R. of Woodchurch, Kent 1808; V. of Broadwindsor 1813;
archdeacon of Isle of Man 29 Sept. 1808; bishop of Sodor and
Man 22 May 1813, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 6 March 1814;
bishop of Rochester 24 Nov. 1827 to death; dean of Worcester 19
March 1828 to 1854; printed Charges and Sermons 1832–43; went to
Hanover to confirm the Crown prince 1838. _d._ 77 Chester sq.
London 16 Feb. 1860. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _2nd
series_ (1846) _portrait_ 21.
MURRAY, GEORGE (son of John Murray of Troquhain). _b._ Galloway
1808; presbyterian minister, licensed 8 June 1836; assistant
and successor to minister of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright 8
March 1837; minister at Girthon 1843; synod clerk 24 Oct. 1843;
readmitted minister at Balmaclellan 23 Oct. 1851; principal of
Edinburgh Institution; wrote two curling songs The broom and the
channelstane, Carle now the frost’s come 1854, and The bridge
1866. _d._ Wimbledon, Surrey 15 Nov. 1883. _H. Scott’s Fasti i_
697 (1867).
MURRAY, SIR HENRY (youngest son of David Murray, 2 earl of
Mansfield 1727–96). _b._ 6 Aug. 1784; ed. at Westminster
school; cornet 16 dragoons 16 May 1800; major 26 foot 26 March
1807; major 18 dragoons 2 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812
to 10 Sept. 1821, when regiment was disbanded; placed on h.p.
10 Nov. 1821; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo; col. 7
dragoon guards 18 Dec. 1847 to 18 March 1853; col. 14 dragoons
18 March 1853 to death; general 6 Feb. 1855; C.B. 22 June 1815,
K.C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Memoirs of Capt. Arthur Stormont
Murray 1859. _d._ Wimbledon 29 July 1860.
MURRAY, HENRY LEIGH, stage name of Henry Leigh Wilson (brother
of Gaston Murray 1826–89). _b._ Sloane st. London 19 Oct. 1820;
made his début as an actor at Hull 2 Dec. 1839; appeared at
Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1840; played in Edinburgh
till 1845; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre 19
April 1845 as sir Thomas Clifford in The hunchback; played with
Macready at the Surrey 1846; acted at the Lyceum 1847; played
Romeo at Dublin 1848; played at Windsor castle 1848 and 1849;
stage manager at Strand 1847–50, and Olympic 1850–3 under Wm.
Farren; played at Adelphi 1853 to Sept. 1854 and 4 Nov. 1856–7,
at Sadler’s Wells 1855, at Drury Lane 1858, and at Lyceum 1859;
made a great hit as Raphael Duchatlet in Selby’s The marble
heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; the original Harrington in James
Kenney’s London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859; his best parts
were Gustave de Grignon in The ladies battle, Prince Maurice de
Saxe in The reigning favourite, Harry Dornton in The road to
ruin, and Burchell in The vicar of Wakefield; given a benefit
at Drury Lane 27 June 1865; was the leading jeune premier of
his day. _d._ 29 New Bridge st. London 17 Jany. 1870. _bur._
Brompton cemetery 22 Jany. _W. Marston’s Our recent actors
ii_ 307–9 (1888); _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1851) 135–7
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part_ 14
_portrait_; _The Players iii_ 399 (1861), _and iv_ 2 (1861);
_Theatrical Times i_ 161 (1847) _portrait_.
MURRAY, JAMES. _b._ Armagh 9 Dec. 1831; articled with W. Scott
of Liverpool, architect 1845; practised there in partnership
with T. D. Barry; partner with E. W. Pugin at 14 Buckingham
st. Strand, London 1857–9, dissolved partnership; practised at
Coventry till his death; his chief works are the justice rooms,
and the corn exchange, Coventry 1856; corn exchanges at Banbury
1857, and St. Albans 1858, besides churches at Warwick, Bolton,
Sunderland, Newcastle, and Stratford-on-Avon; author of Modern
architecture, ecclesiastic, civil, and domestic 1862; Gothic and
classic buildings erected since 1850, part 1, Coventry 1862.
_d._ Warwick Green south, Coventry 24 Oct. 1863. _Builder xxi_
780, 807, (1863).
MURRAY, SIR JAMES (son of Edward Murray). _b._ co. Londonderry
1788; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Dublin; L.C.S. Edinb.
1807; M.C.S. Dublin 1808; M.D. Edinb. 1829; hon. M.D. Dublin
1832; physician at Belfast 1809 to 1829; resident physician
to marquess of Anglesey, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1829,
knighted by him 1833; resident physician to viscount Ebrington
1839, and to marquess of Normandy 1845; inspector of anatomy
in Dublin nearly 40 years; established a manufactory for fluid
magnesia which he had discovered 1817; probably the first to
suggest electricity as a curative agent; author of Dissertation
on the influence of heat and humidity 1829; Observations on
fluid magnesia 1840; Electricity as a cause of cholera or other
epidemics, Dublin 1849. _d._ 19 Upper Temple st. Dublin 8 Dec.
1871. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. _I.L.N. lix_ 618 (1871), _lx_ 15,
16, (1872) _portrait_.
MURRAY, JAMES. _b._ 1806; entered foreign office 11 Nov. 1826;
assistant under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1 Oct.
1858 to 4 July 1869, when he retired on a pension of £1,375 a
year; C.B. 7 Aug. 1869; F.R.G.S. _d._ 149 Sloane st. Chelsea 19
Feb. 1878.
MURRAY, JAMES. _b._ 1802 or 1803; lost his sight at the age of
five years; known as the blind poet of Galloway; author of The
maid of Galloway, a tale of Thrieve and Otterburn 1850. _d._
middle of Aug. 1882. _Athenæum 26 Aug. 1882 p._ 273.
MURRAY, JAMES ARCHIBALD (son of Charles Murray). _b._ 4 March
1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; solicitor in London 1820;
second secretary to the master of the rolls 1820–1843; one of
the clerks of records and writs in chancery 1851 to death. _d._
7 Southwick st. Cambridge sq. London 23 Feb. 1873.
MURRAY, JOHN (son of James Murray, sea-captain). _b._ Stranraer,
Wigtownshire about 1786; lecturer on the philosophy of
physics and of chemistry; lectured at the Surrey institution,
Blackfriars road, London many years from 1816; F.L.S. 1819;
F.S.A. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.H.S. 1824; author of Elements of
chemical science 1815, 2 ed. 1818; A manual of experiments
illustrative of chemical science, 5 ed. 1839; A treatise on
atmospherical electricity 1830; The truth of revelation 1831
anon, 2 ed. 1840; Observations on flame and safety lamps 1833,
and 23 other books. _d._ Broadstone house, near Stranraer 28
June 1851. _bur._ in Inch churchyard. _Mining Journal 12 July
1851 p._ 336.
MURRAY, JOHN. _b._ 1798; succeeded David Laing the original
Gretna Green blacksmith as keeper of the Sark toll-bar just over
the Scotch border in Dumfriesshire, where he performed on an
average 400 marriages a year up to 1856; keeper of the Sark Bar
hotel. _d._ May 1861. _P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna
Green ii_ 91 (1844); _G.M. xi_ 96 (1861).
MURRAY, JOHN (son of Andrew Murray, an advocate). _b._ Aberdeen
1843; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.B. and C.M. 1865, M.D. 1867;
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1865; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1870; studied in London,
Paris, Berlin and Vienna; hospital reporter to The British
Medical journal 1867, sub-editor to his decease; assist.
physician and lecturer on pathology Middlesex hospital, became
dean 1868; visited the ambulances around Sedan 1870; assist.
physician Children’s hospital Great Ormond st. 1871. _d._ after
an operation for tracheotomy 42 Harley st. London 15 Oct. 1873.
_bur._ Aberdeen. _British medical journal 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 476;
_The Lancet 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 577.
MURRAY, JOHN. _b._ Kelso 12 Dec. 1804; engineer to river Wear
comrs. at Sunderland 1831; moved the Wear lighthouse in one
solid piece to another site, a distance of more than 150 yards
Aug. 1841, the lighthouse was 69 feet high and 15 feet in
diameter at the base, constructed docks along the sea shore
with an outlet into the river at one end and into Hendon bay
at the other 1848–56; practised in London 1848–70; M.I.C.E. 12
March 1833, member of council 1859–71; author of An address on
the sanitary improvement of the metropolis 1852; The tides and
currents in the Polar seas, with reasons for persevering in the
search for sir J. Franklin 1854. _d._ 2 Feb. 1882. _Min. of
Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxi_ 400–407 (1883); _W. H. D. Adams’s
Lighthouses_ (1870) 182–6 _view of the Wear lighthouse_.
MURRAY, JOHN (eld. son of John Murray, publisher 1778–1843).
_b._ London 16 April 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and univ.
of Edinb. 1827; helped his father in the business 1830–43;
publisher at 50 Albemarle st. 1843 to death; published many
books by Borrow, Croker, Lyell, Lockhart, Hallam, sir F. Head,
lord Stanhope, lord Campbell, and Grote, and the series known
as Murray’s Handbooks; published the Quarterly Review 1843 to
death; started Murray’s Mag. Jany. 1887 which ceased Dec. 1891;
F.S.A. 2 March 1876; edited Unpublished letters of Laurence
Sterne, Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies vol. ii (1855–6) Tract
xi; author of Hand-book for travellers in France 1843; Murray’s
Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine 1852; Scepticism in geology
and the reason for it. By Verifier 1877, 2 ed. 1878. _d._ 50
Albemarle st. London 2 April 1892. _bur._ in Wimbledon parish
church 6 April, net personal estate sworn at £71,390. _S.
Smiles’s A publisher and his friends vol._ 2 (1891) _passim_;
_Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 159–98; _The Critic xx_ 17 (1860)
_portrait_; _Graphic 9 April 1892) p._ 464 _portrait_; _Saturday
Review lxii_ 834.
MURRAY, SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD (2 son of Alexander Murray, lord
Henderland, Scottish judge 1736–95). _b._ Midlothian 1779;
ed. at Edinburgh high school, Westminster school, and univ.
of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1799; on staff of Edinburgh
review, joint editor with Sydney Smith and 3 others of Edinburgh
review 1802, to which he contributed many years; founder of the
Friday club 1805; M.P. Leith Dec. 1832 to April 1839; recorder
of the great roll and clerk of the pipe; lord advocate 1834
and 20 April 1835 to 1839; judge of court of session with
courtesy title of lord Murray April 1839 to death; knighted at
St. James’s palace 24 April 1839; author of Letter to the lord
advocate, on the procedure in the court of session and jury
trials, by a member of court, Edinburgh 1850. _d._ 11 Great
Stuart st. Edinburgh 7 March 1859. _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches_ (1876) 71–7; _Memoirs of Francis Horner_, 2 _vols._
1853, _this work is dedicated to Lord Murray and contains many
letters to him_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 107–9
_portrait_; _Law magazine and law review vii_ 182–7 (1859).
MURRAY, JOHN FISHER (eld. son of sir James Murray, physician
1788–1871). _b._ Belfast 11 Feb. 1811; studied medicine;
educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; contributed
to Blackwood’s Magazine sketches of London life, afterwards
reprinted separately, and a series of papers in 1840 entitled
Some account of himself, by the Irish oyster eater; wrote for
the Belfast Vindicator and the Nation 1845; author of The
Chinese and the ministry 1840; The Viceroy, a romance, 3 vols.
1841; The Environs of London, western division, Edinb. 1842; The
world of London, 2 vols. Edinb. 1843, second series, 2 vols.
London 1845. _d._ Dublin 20 Oct. 1865. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet.
_C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland_ (1880) 14 _et seq._
NOTE.--He also wrote The court doctor dissected 1839, second ed.
entitled Lady Flora Hastings 1839. This refers to the conduct of Sir
James Clark, M.D. in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, lady in waiting
to the Queen, who was accused of being in a pregnant condition, when
the appearance was caused by disease. There was much discussion, both
in the newspapers and by pamphlets, on this case.
MURRAY, JOHN O’KANE. _b._ Glenariffe, co. Antrim 12 Dec. 1847;
went to U.S. of America June 1856; graduated at St. John’s
college, Fordham, New York; practised medicine in Brooklyn, New
York; worked from 12 to 16 hours a day for years; author of A
popular history of the Catholic church in the United States
1876; The prose and poetry of Ireland 1877; The catholic heroes
and heroines of America 1878; Little lives of the great saints
1879; The catholic pioneers of America 1881; Lessons in English
literature 1883. _d._ Chicago 30 July 1885.
MURRAY, MARY FRANCES (dau. of Julio Henry Hughes of Adelphi
theatre, London actor, his widow Fanny Hughes _d._ 12 April
1880). _b._ near Frankfort, Germany; first appeared on the stage
1851 at Guildford theatre as Sophia in The rendezvous; first
appeared in London 23 Nov. 1853 at Lyceum as Emma Thornton in
The bachelor of arts; played Ariel in The tempest at Sadler’s
Wells 2 Oct. 1855; Esther in P. Simpson’s Daddy Hardacre 26
March 1857, Elvira in Brough’s burlesque Masaniello 2 July
1857, Violet in Oxenford’s Doubtful victory 19 April 1858,
Alice in Oxenford’s Porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Grace Emery in
Craven’s Chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Amelia Howard in Horace
Wigan’s Taming a truant 19 March 1863, Emily St. Evremond in
Tom Taylor’s The ticket-of-leave man 27 May 1863, all at the
Olympic; played Marion Vernon in Taylor and Dubourg’s A sister’s
penance at Adelphi 26 Nov. 1866; Mrs. Singleton Bliss in Byron’s
Cyril’s success at opening of Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868; acted
in Cheltnam’s drama Edendale and Gilbert’s extravaganza The
pretty druidess at opening of Charing Cross theatre 19 June
1869; Marguerite in Burnand’s Very little Faust at same house
17 Aug. 1869; played Mrs. Merton in Byron’s Not such a fool
as he looks 23 Oct. 1869, Chloe in Albury’s Oriana 15 Feb.
1873, both at Globe theatre; played Mrs. Magennis in Byron’s An
American lady at opening of Criterion theatre 21 March 1874;
Miss Tarragon in H. Aidé’s Nine days wonder 12 June 1875, Romona
in W. Stephen’s Ethel’s revenge 9 Sept. 1876, Mrs. Meredith in
C. F. Coghlan’s Brothers 4 Nov. 1876, Mrs. Primrose in W. G.
Will’s Olivia 30 March 1878, all at Court theatre; played Miss
Meryon in G. W. Godfrey’s Coralie 28 May 1881, Mrs. Preston in
C. Scott’s The Cape mail 27 Oct. 1881, Miss Kilmore in B. C.
Stephenson’s Impulse 9 Dec. 1882, all at St. James’s, and Mrs.
Stonehay in A. W. Pinero’s The Profligate at opening of Garrick
theatre 24 April 1889; _m._ Gaston Murray, who _d._ 8 Aug. 1889.
_d._ 1 Trent road, Brixton, London 15 Jany. 1891. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic List_ (1880) 269; _Illust. S. and D. news iii_ 513, 539
(1875) _portrait_.
MURRAY, MONTAGU. _b._ Edinburgh; educ. Glasgow; arrived at Port
Nicholson with the New Zealand expedition co. as tailor to the
emigrants 1840, when Wellington was founded; attached to the
survey staff; proprietor of the Ship inn, Wellington; played
Scotch characters in a bijou theatre; after the Wairoa massacres
he removed to New South Wales 1843; tailor and actor in Sydney;
a master tailor Little Collins st. Melbourne; organized and
managed the Garrick club; opened the Queen’s theatre 1851;
toured through New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia;
the original in the song, dialogue, and dance of The deil among
the tailors; always known as Wee Murray; played Baillie Nicol
Jarvie in Sydney, last time in 1869; settled in business with
his son Donald Murray at Hay, N.S.W. 1869. _d._ Hay June 1880.
_The Era 1 Aug. 1880 p._ 6.
MURRAY, NICHOLAS (son of Nicholas Murray, farmer). _b._
Ballynaskea, Westmeath 25 Dec. 1802; landed in New York July
1818; a printer 1818–21; became a Protestant 1821; graduated at
Williams college 1826, and at Princetown theological seminary
1829; pastor of Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New
Jersey 1833 to death; D.D. Williams college 1843; moderator of
the general assembly 1850; under the signature of Kirwan he
wrote Letters to the rt. hon. J. Hughes, Roman catholic bishop
of New York 1848 two series, 1851 three series, and new ed.
1875; Kirwan’s Letter to Dr. Côte on baptism 1849; Romanism
at home, being letters to the hon. Roger B. Taney 1852, 6 ed.
1852; Kirwan on Bedini and Dr. Duff, an address 1854, several
replies were made to these works; author of Notes, historical
and biographical, concerning Elizabeth Town 1844; Men and things
as I saw them in Europe 1853; Parish and other pencillings 1855;
Preachers and preaching 1860. _d._ Elizabethtown, New Jersey 4
Feb. 1861. _S. I. Prime’s Memoir of N. Murray_ (1863) _portrait_.
MURRAY, PATRICK ALOYSIUS. _b._ Clones, co. Monaghan 18 Nov.
1811; ed. at Maynooth 1829–35; R.C. curate Francis st. Dublin
1835; professor of belles lettres Maynooth 7 Sept. 1838–41,
and professor of theology 27 Aug. 1841 to death, nearly 2,000
priests were his pupils; prefect of Dunboyne house 1879 to
death; contributed to Dublin Review many years; author of The
Irish annual miscellany 1850; Essays, chiefly theological 1851;
Sponsa mater et Christi 1858, a poem; Tractatus de ecclesia
Christi, 3 vols. 1860–6, the most complete work on the subject;
Prose and verse 1867; Tractatus de gratia 1877. _d._ Maynooth
college 15 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Maynooth 18 Nov. _Irish Monthly
xix_ 337–46 (1891); _Freeman’s Journal 17 Nov. 1882 p._ 5.
MURRAY, PETER (son of Patrick Murray, M.D., assistant judge of
supreme court of Jamaica). _b._ Montego bay, Jamaica 30 March
1782; ed. at Scarborough, Kensington and univ. of St. Andrews
1794; entered univ. of Edinb. 31 Oct. 1799, M.D. 24 June 1802;
assistant physician at Finsbury dispensary, London 1803;
practised at High Harrogate May 1804–12; at Knaresborough 1812
to Oct. 1826, and at Scarborough from 1826 to death. _d._ Belle
Vue, near Scarborough 27 Feb. 1864. _bur._ Scarborough cemet. 5
March. _The beloved physician by Rev. R. Balgarnie_ (1864).
MURRAY, RICHARD. _b._ 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1802, M.A. 1807, D.B. and D.D. 1830; dean of Ardagh 10 Feb. 1829
to death; author of Practical remarks on book of Genesis 1827;
Outlines of the history of the catholic church in Ireland 1840;
Ireland and her church 1845; The church of St. John in Ireland
1849. _d._ Exmouth, Devon 2 Aug. 1854.
MURRAY, ROBERT FULLER (eld. child of John Murray of Roxbury
in Massachusets, unitarian minister, who _d._ 1886). _b._
Roxbury 26 Dec. 1863; taken to England 1869; lived at Kelso
1869–71, at York 1871, then at Canterbury; ed. at Ilminster and
Crewkerne gr. schools; entered at univ. of St. Andrews 1881 with
a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester New
college; wrote verse in the University paper afterwards called
College Echoes; assisted professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn of St.
Andrews, in literary and academic work 1886–9, left St. Andrews
May 1889; wrote leader-notes for the Scottish leader May 1889 to
about 6 Aug. 1889; wrote pieces of verse in Longman’s Magazine,
Punch, and St. James’s Gazette; his book The Scarlet Gown,
verses by a St. Andrews man, was published by his friend A. M.
Holden 1891. _d._ Laurel bank, Ilminster, Somerset 17 Jany.
1894. _Robert F. Murray, his poems, with a memoir by Andrew
Lang_ (1894); _Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp._ 644–50.
MURRAY, SIR TERENCE AUBREY (son of Terence Murray, captain 48
foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) _b._ Limerick 1810; went
to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate
1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray,
King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member
for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the
Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug.
1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858;
speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of
legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to
death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. _d._ Sydney 22 June 1873.
_Australian men of mark i_ 159–64 (1889) _portrait_.
MURRAY, THOMAS. _b._ parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire
1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the
established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir
David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh
Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of
Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George
st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the
firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired
about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The
literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford
1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John
Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton
1863. _d._ Elm Bank, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 15 April 1872.
_Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 77.
MURRAY, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1801; founded firm of Thomas
Murray and Son, booksellers and publishers 8 Argyll st.
Glasgow, removed to 31 Buchanan st., retired some years before
his death; member of Glasgow town council; with A. K. Murray
published Murray’s Handbooks for Scotland, Glasgow 1852–6,
eleven numbers; Murray’s Railway readings 1867 etc. _d._ 7 Royal
crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow 13 Jany. 1884.